Re: [Tack-devel] Build system replacement

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Rogelio Serrano wrote:
[...]
> on the other hand thats a very welcome change because i have been
> thinking about this for a while already. just a bunch of simple non
> recursive makefiles

Unfortunately the highly dynamic nature of the ACK --- which builds
program which create files which are then used to build other programs
which generate source code which is then finally compiled *several
times* into the end result --- tends to make build systems curl up in a
corner and cry. I've yet to find a build system that could cope with
this sort of thing in a sane manner (and would love to find one, I do a
lot of this stuff at work).

The new build system more-or-less generates makefiles on-the-fly using
loathsome make macros. It's really not pretty. Go take a look at the
build.mk files some time...

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