[ANN] bzr 2.4b3 has gone gold
vila
v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr
Fri May 27 13:04:54 UTC 2011
>>>>> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
<snip/>
> Vincent, I'm sorry to say that, but idea of "handling the
> dependencies" with make is too fragile to be used seriously.
You'd have to come with better argumentation to convince me here
> You can define chain of commands that depends on each other, but
> you can't actually define robust dependencies between source files
> and build product, just because make looks only on difference in
> timestamps.
And when is that failing ?
> In my practice it leads to unusable situations on big projects
> when you have to do every time
> make clean build
IME, this is only needed when there are bugs in Makefiles.
Vincent
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