Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
More code in makefiles doesn't necessarily improve things quite a lot. druntime has a lot of makefiles; apparently every single blessed thing has a makefile dedicated to it. But that complicates things without benefit.
In theory, each thing in druntime with a makefile is actually a standalone project, but since they're built together for the current distribution I agree it's overcomplicated.
Regarding DM's make program, I'd be happy if it simply accepted rules with wildcards (ie. %.o : %.d). That would eliminate basically all the differences between the Win32 and Posix makefiles in druntime.
