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Re: Incremental build systems, infamake

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On 07/25/11 10:04 PM, Joshua Maurice wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2:38 am, Joshua Maurice<joshuamaur...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Jul 25, 2:33 am, Ian Collins<ian-n...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On 07/25/11 09:11 PM, Joshua Maurice wrote:
>>
>>>> It will? I admit - if you hack the bejesus out of it as compared to
>>>> traditional solutions you find online, such as the Recursive Make
>>>> Considered Harmful solution, then yes. I would be greatly surprised if
>>>> anyone but a remote fraction of actual build systems in use would
>>>> actually do a recompile of an object file if you added a new header
>>>> file which hid a previously included header file on the include path.
>>
>>> Well Sun (d)make certainly does.
>>
>>> If I have a rule
>>
>>> x.o: x.cc
>>>          CC x.cc -o x -I b -I a
>>
>>> and a header in a, adding a header with the same name to b will trigger
>>> a rebuild.
>>
>> Well, apparently I must do some more learning. I am surprised. I
>> wonder exactly what sort of hackery is done here. This is kind of what
>> I want. It would be nice if it had already been done. I will comment
>> later...
>
> Well, indeed there it is.
>
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19205-01/819-5262/aeucf/index.html
> [quote]
> 3.1.6 .KEEP_STATE and Special Dependency Checking

<snip>

> It seems to be a solution very integrated with the Sun C compiler from
> what my google-fu can uncover. Specifically, it does not seem
> portable. Hell, it's not even really specified what it does and does
> not do. I think the above quote is from the actual manual, and I'm not
> going to find better offhand.

It works with gcc as well, on Solaris and Linux.  I use both compilers 
on both platforms.  If I have to deploy elsewhere, I still develop on 
one of my preferred platforms, where I know incremental builds work.

> So, I feel a little better, as I may not have been wasting my time
> doing something that's already been done. Portability is a rather
> stringent requirement for a build system for my company. It's also
> woefully inadequate for my company as we do more than simple C
> compilation. We do C++, Java, some custom code generation, an Eclipse
> plugin build, and a few more odds and ends.

So do I, excluding (spit) Java.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 00:25 -0700
  Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-25 21:00 +1200
    Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 02:11 -0700
      Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-25 21:33 +1200
        Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 02:38 -0700
          Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-25 21:55 +1200
          Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 03:04 -0700
            Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-25 22:22 +1200
              Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 03:25 -0700
                Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-25 23:41 +1200
            Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-26 16:11 +0000
              Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 15:19 -0700
                Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 15:28 -0700
                Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 15:49 -0700
  Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-07-25 12:52 +0100
    Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 13:34 -0700
      Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-07-27 19:49 +0100
        Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 03:58 -0700
  Re: Incremental build systems, infamake Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-26 15:04 +0000

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