30 Oct
2011
30 Oct
'11
12:03 p.m.
On 10/30/2011 01:19 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Reminds me of a discussion that I had with Greg
Mansfield, then of
Cray sometime around 1983. We were discussing mods to Unix (I, BSD
for the VAX; he, UniCOS) and I happened to mention that maintiang the
makefiles and integrity of partial builds was a bit of a burden. He
responded that he didn't bother with partial builds--he just
recompiled the whole thing every time.
After all, he was running on some very fast hardware. Indeed, even
today, I'll find myself wondering what the heck I'm doing working out
a makefile for a project whose compilation time is a minute at worst.
That sorta makes sense I suppose. I was brought up with a "waste
not, want not" mentality, and that extends to my development process. I
have a few "boilerplate" Makefiles that I keep around for starting new
projects; it takes me about a minute to set one up and get it running.
Maybe five minutes for a complicated one like for cross-building ARM7 stuff.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA