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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . |
| Date | 2019-08-10 09:43 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <gr67nlFu65U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 10/08/2019 02:36, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes: >> On Thu, 2019-08-08, Scott Lurndal wrote: >>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes: >>>> On Thu, 2019-08-08, Frederick Gotham wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm working on a firmware project at the moment, it's running on >>>>> embedded Linux for a 64-Bit ARM processor (aarch64). >>>>> >>>>> There's the main Makefile, which uses "make -C" to invoke further >>>>> Makefiles in nested subdirectories. Altogether there's four thousand >>>>> Makefiles. >>>> >>>> Someone somewhere should be fired ... >>> >>> Why? Doesn't seem completely out-of-line: >>> >>> $ find bootloader firmware -name Makefile | wc -l >>> 929 >> >> Because I believe in the Recursive Make Considered Harmful paper: >> http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf > > That paper has never been convincing to me, nor anyone that I've > ever worked with, nor any unix or linux os or other large sourcebase > that I've worked on professionally. It convinced me long ago... Recursive Make makes distributed building much harder. My current project code base is modest (about 3,000 source files in multiple libraries) but we only have one "makefile". It isn't actually a makefile, we use premake to to generate a ninja build file. -- Ian.
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Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Frederick Gotham <cauldwell.thomas@gmail.com> - 2019-08-08 07:10 -0700
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> - 2019-08-08 17:54 +0200
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> - 2019-08-08 18:35 +0200
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-08-08 19:02 +0000
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-08-08 19:56 +0000
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-08-09 14:01 +0000
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-08-09 14:36 +0000
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-08-10 09:43 +1200
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-08-10 17:06 +0200
Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . Frederick Gotham <cauldwell.thomas@gmail.com> - 2019-08-09 06:46 -0700
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