Re: [Monotone-devel] package_full_revision.txt and derived files

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:52:23 -0600, "Matthew A. 
> Nicholson" <address@hidden> said:
>
> matt> Peter Simons wrote:
> matt> > currently, the build system rebuilds the monotone binary
> matt> > every time you say "make" because it regenerates the
> matt> > package_full_revision.txt file even though nothing has
> matt> > changed.
> [...]
> matt> 
> matt> I am willing to assist with a conversion to scons[1] which would
> matt> elimnate problems like this and also enable builds like 'scons -j 45'.
>
> The problem lies in the dependencies, not in the tool.
>
> package_full_revision.txt is currently regarded as a .PHONY, which is
> the reason it gets constantly rebuilt.  Is there a reason it can't
> depend on MT/revision?

Either way it goes I am biased.  I detest make, and when I discovered scons 
salvation was found.  Scons is all around better than make in virtually every 
reguard.  The only area where make can compete is when it is used with autoconf 
and automake and such (but scons can still do that stuff).


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Matthew A. Nicholson
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