On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 13:56:17 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 13:12 +0000, Atila Neves via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I did a `git up` on dmd, druntime and phobos, but phobos
wouldn't build. Weird, but I had to fork phobos anyway, let me
do that. Still wouldn't build. I tried `make clean`, can't
remember exactly what happened but that didn't work either.
In the end I `rm -rf`ed dmd and druntime, recloned them,
rebuilt them and _then_ phobos could build.
Feels like when I wrote Makefiles by hand, I'd forgotten it
could get this bad.
Make was a revelation and a revolution, in 1977. Things have
progressed in
the last 37 years. Sadly a large number of C, C++, D, etc.
programmers seem
to be convinced that build technology reached a pinnacle in
1992 and
stopped progressing.
To be fair, I've seen a lot of new build systems, but not a lot
of better build system.
I keep coming back to makefile, not because it is good, but
because it is not worse than most of the shit I tried, and at
least it is available everywhere and you find documentation about
it on the net easily for everyone of its obscure corners.
