Nick,
I agree that your example is simple. Even I can understand and create
such "toy" makefile. What I am complaining about is getting
evil/nasty/nested makefiles that don't work (unlike the MAKE_CONF
experience you've had) and having to understand all [exaggeration] of it
to find the presumably few line(s) that must be changed.
I assume you're referring to Nash the game theorist. Back before WWII and
after, von Neumann (a founder of the discipline of computing) applied
functional analysis as developed by Banach to problems of mathematical
physics and economics. I didn't know that Nash used functional analysis
in game theory. Thanks for the opportunity to rant :-).
Roy
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On 11/13/00, 5:58:34 PM, Nick Bauman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
Re: Thanks for the make links and a rant:
<snip>
> The makefile I used to compile Tomcat is thus:
> ---------8<----------
> # Keep track of the package name
> PACKAGE=org.apache
> # Keep track of the package version
> VERSION=3_2
> # where the maketools be
> MAKE_CONF=./maketools
> include $(MAKE_CONF)/config.mk
> include $(MAKE_CONF)/rules.mk
> ---------8<----------
> Can it be any simpler?
> Now I know that there is a lot of magic in the MAKE_CONF, but then you
> don't have to worry about that. It just works.
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Roy Wilson wrote:
> > Nick,
> >
> > I have a copy of the FSF make manual: As our president used to say "I
> > recur to my former statement [about make documentation]." :-) I'll have
> > to check out the O'Reilly reference. See my rant below.
> >
> > Roy
> >
> --
> Nicolaus Bauman
> Software Engineer
> Simplexity Systems
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