Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/02/09:33:34
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
> > Another gripe: Would it be too much trouble to use one big Makefile instead
> > of that silly `rmake' stuff?
> ^^^^^
> Please do not use words like ``silly'' for work done by somebody else.
> `rmake' (as most of the library) was written by DJ Delorie, and I
> trust him that he wrote that for a very good reason. If you want to
> know why, please ask him.
Here is some background to my choice of process:
* I didn't want to have to remember to add an object to the makefiles
more than once. I add the source to the makefile in that directory,
and the rest of the system just knows what to do with it.
* I didn't want to forget to add a new directory to the toplevel
makefile (I've done it before).
* If a source or directory is *deleted* the system needs to know to
do the right thing.
* Dependencies are hard to get right, especially when multiple
directories are involved.
* I wanted the makefile to be in with the sources so that I'd remember
to update it, and it would be easy to verify that it's correct.
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