I tend to agree that it would be better to stick with vanilla make. We
want as few dependencies on non-pervasive tools as possible.
For Java, I think we have a pretty good cut at a good make system on Xalan.
While it is not automatic, it is fairly simple, and, with a little work it
can probably be made to work with a wide variety of DOS make tools, not
just Cygnus. What I like about our system is that it doesn't compile a
file at a time... it compiles XPath, for instance, in a single line,
passing it all changed files at once. Since Java chases down dependencies
and compiles them, this is very important for a fast build. Xalan will do
a clean build of the xalan.jar in under two minutes, using javac, on my
Thinkpad 600.
For C++, there is no question in my mind that an automatic makemake system
should be used.
-scott
Steve
Suehring To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sander van
Zoest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Scott
Boag/CAM/Lotus)
edcs.com> Subject: Re: Make Tools (was Re:
version numbers)
11/10/99
08:56 PM
Please
respond to
xerces-dev
I would much rather stick with make. From an implementation standpoint
it's much easier to debug make on the end-user level than it is to work
with another tool.
Steve
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Sander van Zoest wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>
> > > Stefano pointed out the existance of a Make tool implemented in
> > > Java, which would be more than fine with me. I don't know how big
the
> > > download for this is, but it's worth investigating. As far as jar
files
> > > go, that would be fine with me as well.
> > Another option would be to stick to pure 'make'. As in a subset of
'gmake'
> > :-).
>
> I would vote for a pure 'make' install mechanism, so the FreeBSD version
> could simply use the native pmake rather then requiring people to install
> gmake or any other build tool.
>
> If we do require another build tool, it would be nice if it came with the
> tarball sort of like ralfs' APACI for the apache http server.
>
> --
> Sander van Zoest
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