On 4/14/15 1:53 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
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.
Cool. BTW threads should be more than cores there, you have more devices
working in parallel than the cores.
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.
No need to argue against make's shortcomings with me :o).
Andrei
