Re: Better mousetrap ^W Makefile

[Ken Fox]

Chip Salzenberg writes:
 You mean, 'building outside of the source dir'?  If so, three cheers.
 I'm in the habit of keeping sources in /u/src/foo/bar and building in
 /u/build/foo/bar with symlink /u/build/foo/bar/SRC - /u/src/foo/bar.

I've found that lndir (from the X11 distribution) works very well.  When
I build something, I unpack the original sources into "foo-X.Y" and then
make a directory "OS-foo-X.Y" (where OS is SunOS, IRIX, etc.).  Remove
write permission on foo-X.Y, run "lndir ../foo-X.Y" and builds can
happen in OS-foo-X.Y without any chance of screwing up the originals.
The nice part of this approach is that it doesn't require any support
from the build tools at all.

- Ken

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Re: Better mousetrap ^W Makefile

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Jarkko Hietaniemi:
 I'll cast my vote for Cons, too.

And some voters are more equal than others.

 Let's be as deeply committed to Perl as we possibly can, that way we
 can make our own rules, instead of having to bend over backwards,
 while juggling a chainsaw, an electric eel, and a blowtorch.

"Chainsaw?  Luxury!  When I started, I had to write configuration
programs for CP/M in PL/I-80!"

I think we'll still want to keep a minimal makefile around for the
very very first steps required to build microperl.  Then we're off!

 ... not even to spit at the general direction of GNU
 configure/automake [...]

I shall waste none of my precious bodily fluids in so foolish an
endeavor.  The GNU build tools are, by and large, awful.  GNU make
is pretty good, but the rest are recycling fodder.

 And yes, I would make building out of the source directory a
 requirement.

You mean, 'building outside of the source dir'?  If so, three cheers.
I'm in the habit of keeping sources in /u/src/foo/bar and building in
/u/build/foo/bar with symlink /u/build/foo/bar/SRC - /u/src/foo/bar.
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