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Re: Build system proposal

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Build system proposal
Date 2024-02-04 23:32 +0000
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>On 04/02/2024 15:39, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>>> How shall we write a better build system?
>>> 
>>> Current systems use scripts with ad hoc, weird syntax. They don't work 
>>> consistently across platforms, they break and are hard to fix, and are 
>>> complicated to set up. You even get get one scripting system as a front 
>>> end to another, a sort of admission of failure.
>>> 
>>> But can we do better?
>>> 
>>> A scripting language provides loops, conditional branches, and 
>>> subroutine calls. And we've already got a perfecty good language for 
>>> describing that. It is C itself.
>>> 
>>> So here's the proposal. We implement a C interpreter.
>
> This was tried.  It's called the c-shell.

csh isn't a C interpreter by any stretch of the imagination!

-- 
Ben.

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Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-04 15:39 +0000
  Re: Build system proposal bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-02-04 15:58 +0000
    Re: Build system proposal scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-04 16:58 +0000
      Re: Build system proposal bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-02-04 17:15 +0000
        Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-04 17:40 +0000
      Re: Build system proposal Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-02-04 23:32 +0000
        Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-04 23:58 +0000
          Re: Build system proposal Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-02-05 14:42 +0000
            Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 15:17 +0000
              Re: Build system proposal bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-02-05 16:00 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 16:51 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-02-05 17:39 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 11:13 -0800
                Re: Build system proposal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-05 23:41 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-02-05 19:14 +0200
              Re: Build system proposal David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-05 20:47 +0100
                Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 21:19 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 13:38 -0800
                Re: Build system proposal David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-06 11:10 +0100
                Re: Build system proposal Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-02-05 23:26 +0200
                Re: Build system proposal bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-02-05 21:28 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-05 23:38 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-06 12:56 +0100
                Re: Build system proposal David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-06 12:47 +0100
              Re: Build system proposal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-05 23:34 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 01:41 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-06 02:27 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 02:59 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-06 03:09 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 22:33 -0800
                Re: Build system proposal "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 22:32 -0800
                Re: Build system proposal Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-06 07:25 +0000
                Re: Build system proposal "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 23:33 -0800
                Re: Build system proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 08:20 +0000
            Re: Build system proposal Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-05 08:19 -0800
        Re: Build system proposal Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-02-04 23:24 -0800
  Re: Build system proposal scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-04 16:32 +0000

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