build system rules & algorithms

[Mike Shal]

Hey everyone,

I wrote a paper that analyzes some of the algorithms in make. If you
get annoyed when you have a large project and 'make' takes a long time
to do nothing, or if you think doing 'make clean' is silly, or if you
are just generally intrigued by build systems, you might be interested
to read it. If not, maybe it'll help you get to sleep at night :).

Much of the information applies to other build systems as well, but I
use make specifically because that is what I'm most familiar with. You
can find the paper here:

http://gittup.org/tup/build_system_rules_and_algorithms.pdf

Hope you find it useful!

-Mike