Matthew Toseland writes: > > --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:59:50AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > I would like to encourage those still using the Makefile and "make" to=20 > > switch to Ant (downloadable from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/),=20 > > as it is a pain to have to update both Makefile and build.xml when=20 > > modifications are made, and Ant is more powerful, and easier to=20 > > use than make. > More powerful than GNU make? That's difficult to believe... but we don't > use make as make, we basically call a shell script.
The problem with make is javac has a stupid startup time, so is best called with 30+ files at once. Make likes to call things sequentially. ant is designed to call javac once with all the filenames. Make can be hacked into creating a list of 'updated' files, but it's not worth it. --Dan _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
