Agreed. https://github.com/blakemcbride/Build
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 9:40 PM Tim Murphy wrote:
> Targets with multiple outputs have never been well supported in GNU make
> and despite appeals and the problem having existed forever and despite
> examples of commercial make implementations that
Targets with multiple outputs have never been well supported in GNU make
and despite appeals and the problem having existed forever and despite
examples of commercial make implementations that support it well, it would
not surprise me if support for it was something we could only hope for for
our c
I appreciate all of the replies and comments, but I think a point is being
missed.
Let's say my Java app is made up of 9,500 source files (which is actually
true!). Let's say I change 20 of them.
1. How could I create a dependency that basically says the 9,500 Java
files in an entire source dir
It's been years, but I'll throw in my 2 cents in case it helps.
I attempted to make some java stuff build using a makefile and ran into
circular dependency issues: foo.java depended on bar.java & vice-versa.
When I attempted to compile foo.java by itself it complained about
unsatisfied dependencie
On 1/21/19 3:17 AM, Blake McBride wrote:
1. When building C programs one calls the compiler for each source
file. This is impractical with Java because of the javac startup time.
Typically javac is called once with many source files at a time - but
not the ones that are not out of date.
T
Thank you for your kind response.
It seems to me, and as reported by others, that what Make does and what the
Java build tools do have some fundamental differences. Some that come to
mind are as follows:
1. When building C programs one calls the compiler for each source file.
This is impractica
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 05:42:44 -0600
Blake McBride wrote:
> I have found Make very easy to understand and use. Given the amount of
> work they do in the background, I have found build tools such as Maven
> and Gradle to be very confusing.
When I some years ago wrote Android apps I found eclipse to
