Comments on: Subbuilds: build avoidance done right http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/10/21/subbuilds-build-avoidance-done-right/ This is your source for private development cloud best practices and technical tips and tricks for Electric Cloud solutions Thu, 03 May 2012 01:47:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Leishman http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/10/21/subbuilds-build-avoidance-done-right/#comment-95 Chris Leishman Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:14:18 +0000 http://blog.electric-cloud.com/?p=552#comment-95 I have to echo Jean's comment - this whole "subbuild" approach is _exactly_ what make normally does anyway, except that there's an extra DB layer built in to work around the fact that the original makefiles were poorly constructed using recursive make, rather than non-recursive. I have to echo Jean’s comment – this whole “subbuild” approach is _exactly_ what make normally does anyway, except that there’s an extra DB layer built in to work around the fact that the original makefiles were poorly constructed using recursive make, rather than non-recursive.

]]> By: Jean http://www.electric-cloud.com/blog/2009/10/21/subbuilds-build-avoidance-done-right/#comment-94 Jean Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:26:26 +0000 http://blog.electric-cloud.com/?p=552#comment-94 Pity the discussion at uberVU is not available here... To sum it up, "build avoidance" vs "object reuse" muddles the water: the problem is broken makefiles. "Build avoidance" in emake tries to work around the brokenness instead of helping to do the right thing: non-recursive make. The examples above are broken themselves, see http://make.paulandlesley.org/rules.html, rule 3: "Life is simplest if the targets are built in the current working directory." Pity the discussion at uberVU is not available here… To sum it up, “build avoidance” vs “object reuse” muddles the water: the problem is broken makefiles. “Build avoidance” in emake tries to work around the brokenness instead of helping to do the right thing: non-recursive make. The examples above are broken themselves, see http://make.paulandlesley.org/rules.html, rule 3: “Life is simplest if the targets are built in the current working directory.”

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