On Mon Mar 25 06:27:26 EDT 2013, pau...@gmail.com wrote: > > > anybody care to explain what is the limitation of mk here? can't > > wrap my head around it... > > > It only knows about the rules you give it. It does not understand the > real dependencies in your software. Also, because of this you tend to > give it general rules which are not always right. There are more, but > these are the ones Rob was referring to, I think.
interesting plan 9 examples: 1. too much. plan 9 libraries are always rebuilt in their entirity, even though it's possible to only rebuild the updated files. 2. too little. plan 9 programs seldom depend on system header files, or the c compiler. neither is a big issue in practice. but that leads me to an interesting question, does go rebuild everything if the go compiler has changed? - erik
