Unix Developers: Advanced Makefiles

[Warren Togami]

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From: "Philip Johnson" <johnson at hawaii.edu>
To: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>; "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users"
<luau at maile.hi.net>; "ICSCLUB" <icsclub-l at hawaii.edu>; "Wes Peterson"
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Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: Unix Developers: Advanced Makefiles

--On 2/15/02 8:32 PM -1000 Warren Togami wrote:

> Useful article for those working on larger programming projects on Unix
> platforms.  This article talks specifically about GNU make (often
installed
> as "gmake" on proprietary Unix platforms).
>
> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/02/14/makefiles.html

The good news is that this article links to a UH tutorial on make!

The bad news is that the example make file builds a Java system. For
building
Java, Jakarta Ant (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/) is far superior to make
and
is the build system of choice among Java developers. Indeed, virtually every
"advanced" make construct illustrated in this article would either not be
required at all in the Ant version or else be implemented in much simpler
way.

Not that I have anything against Make. It's of course the only game in town
for
C/C++ system construction.

Cheers,
Philip