On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 21:27:47 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
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.
Except it is not, unless you are writing pure POSIX makefiles and
constraining yourself only to POSIX external commands and their
respective arguments.
This is exactly why tools like Autoconf came into existence.
--
Paulo
