On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:27 -0700, hiren patel wrote: > Hi, > We are having a large,multi platform,complex,commercial C++ project which is > build by > using a make peer PVCS merant make. In oreder to tailor the functionality of > make, we have created the wrapper around it. > > Around 700 of make files in hierarchy with some top level makefiles are used > by the make. > A complex perl script performs and co-ordinates the build stages. It also > executes some of the build stages in parallel. > > Full build itself takes aroud 7 hours. Project is build on unix,sun solaris > and NT platforms. > > Question is can Ant be used for this kind project where build takes a several > hours already?
Ant can be used to build non-java code. However it is likely to be significantly less efficient than Make. Using Ant will definitely not resolve your build issues. You may wish to read "Large-scale C++ Software Design" by John Lakos. I found it an extremely useful book. Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
