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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Adding compilation arguments to 4000 make files. . . |
| Date | 2019-08-10 17:06 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <qimmid$f3t$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 09/08/2019 16:36, 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. > I have had enough trouble dealing with projects that contain separate Makefiles for different parts, yet depend on odd ways across parts, to be convinced by the paper. Far too often I've to do "make clean" before a "make" because of badly coordinated sub-makes. I am sure it is /possible/ to have large systems with recursive makes that work well. Equally, I am sure that often such systems are not done well. >> >>> If you're also building linux: >>> $ find linux -name Makefile | wc -l >>> 2064 >> >> IIRC, Linux falls into the next category: >> >>>> (I'm assuming you're not just seeing the internals of cmake or a >>>> similar tool auto-generating a gazillion makefiles.) > > You do not recall correctly. kernel makefiles are not generated. > > scott >
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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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