On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 20:41:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/13/15 7:34 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 02:24:57PM +0000, Dicebot via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I want to replace those with D scripts for a reason.
Now that dmd is dependent on an existing version of dmd to
build, it
should be no problem to replace the makefiles with D code.
Everytime
something like this happens I just see all the flaws of
makefiles all
over again, but unfortunately some people just refuse the
acknowledge
that makefiles are going the way of the dinosaur and it's time
to move
on.
A thought: any makefile replacement should make sure there's an
equivalent to "-j".
The "-j" option should be there for tweaking only, by default I
expect a modern tool to just use as many threads as I have cores.
Which of course is exactly what Ninja does.
Atila: "make clean" should work. Must have been something weird
on your system.
Maybe there was something weird, but said weirdness was caused by
the existing build system. If "make clean" is ever needed, it's
proof the build system is broken. CMake doesn't even generate a
"clean" target. Of course, this is made a lot easier by the fact
that CMake encourages and enables out-of-tree builds, so if a
clean is needed just delete the build directory.
Atila
