From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Bito Subject: Re: integrating make and git Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3ae83b000904151434t5c3c85ebvec391ec29981ff79@mail.gmail.com> References: <3a69fa7c0904150819x7598dea5ic43bf0991c35ae45@mail.gmail.com> <3a69fa7c0904150947w25783199n6e304d7b4efcd051@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 15 23:36:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LuCm8-0007GT-84 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:36:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753850AbZDOVef (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:34:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752855AbZDOVef (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:34:35 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.24]:30118 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751897AbZDOVee (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:34:34 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so132872qwh.37 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+P47xcXLcIn2UB5EyebXdTaUHZ8mO6GPYwlRlkc+yjc=; b=XHtQToKvWaBW39TU4jpOWLCU6Y2+ZtPYns98Z+wIBgt1kw8BH9lTvMyeKufvmnIhRc h6wyv1Db89AMnAUNTUk3y5016QOi5WG1pfBycOi1xqreu1wRTcv7DmbJwI1ZpQCEhMUL cNvJ3dkLuOkKCY8xtT/aPHnC8bIlXOQaVTq4Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lmIx8WEBlpZ/PFWlvhXvfmWGC5RK4b6sgmPv65Di2uTAXREov8ZHdgAuf+oArHhVq0 UfY7SIacsm5UQoweU3nZPjRv0gYq75duBua6x9T+IgK6vXK4dXS+qSwcWFiW2stL3RMc U4K/o969D/dSLhV3xUfhgFl/DbLCcwwRGwXNU= Received: by 10.229.80.21 with SMTP id r21mr112417qck.80.1239831273369; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: If you're not already using make for a project, think before you start. If you're building something that will go into distribution in source form, you probably should need to use it (via automake & autoconf). For the stuff that I'm doing in a more focused environment, I use boost-build/bjam (http://www.boost.org/users/download/boost_jam_3_1_17). This provides very clean organization of release/debug builds as well as a much more expressive language than make. It's easy to create makefiles that are quite brittle and the plumbing to establish portable builds is really complex. I was away from make working on Java & Ruby for almost ten years. Though I have more than 10 years of experience with make, I'm very happy to have replaced gobs of makefile code with the boost-build package and a few, short Jamfiles. YMMV John