On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Another question is if GNU make is really good enough to warrant this
sort of change.
Good point - gmake has a long history of "hickups" :-)
My question was not meant to imply that GNU make is riddled with bugs.
My question is if deciding to move to a tool which optimizes 30+ year
old build concepts is a good idea.
Automake is a good build system because it provides a simple syntax by
which the developer can specify his intention.
Any analysis of the build for large projects will show that
timestamp-based 'make' and recursion lead to huge losses in build
performance and build integrity.
Build dependencies and knowledge of the current build state are not
adequately handled by timestamp-based 'make', even if it is GNU make.
Software builds will only grow larger. It is time for some innovative
thinking.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
