I'm using GNU Make here to keep some generated data files uptodate.
In general, the kind of facility offered by GNU Make fits this purpose very well, but these files have all kinds of funny characters in their names (spaces, semi-colons, colons, you name it) and here I bump into lots and lots of problems with GNU Make (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35617602 made it possible to get closer to the goal, but it's a nightmare to maintain, and I keep having to add hacks on top of hacks, and with the large number of files involved the resulting performance is simply not satisfactory). Is there some alternative to GNU Make people could recommend where these issues are less painful? I've found lots of "replacements" that are really thought of as "build systems" doing all kinds of fun dependency analysis of source code files and providing great support to handle things like building shared libraries and stuff, but I need nothing of the sort: I just need a tool which will look at the existing files and run the shell scripts I specified to build or update the relevant targets (as I said: from that point of view Make is spot on). Stefan _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
