*** Greg Reagle [2021-01-03 13:07]:
>'all' targets for simplicity--I don't that they are very useful
"all" target is useful only as a default rule that is run by many
implementations by default and you have just to type "redo" to build the
program. But of course everything is fine without it.
>Please take a look and tell me what you think.
Everything looks good. But I am just curious: why do you use
printf 'recompiling %s\n' $2.c >&2
printf 'relinking\n' >&2
instead of?:
echo recompiling $2.c >&2
echo relinking >&2
In my opinion the later is easier to read and understand.
And personally I am pretty against that kind of messages.
* I think it is better to be silent as much as you (program) can. And
print only really valuable messages. Like Go -- it is totally quiet
when doing go get/build, however it could git clone, build, link and
compile dozens of libraries in the background. If you see a message
from it -- then something goes wrong, as a rule. "cc" is silent by
default too and only prints warning/errors
* all redo implementations I tried print the target that is built now.
So anyway you will see what is compiling or linking now
* even if some redo implementation is silent about that, there are, as
you mentioned, options like -x/-v. But explicit progress messages are
useless and even harmful here, in my opinion
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