* Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > Current compilers have a "build at once" mode where they suck the whole > project in and run the optimizer on it at once, resulting in noticeably > smaller and faster output at the expense of needing buckets of memory to hold > all the source code and intermediate structures in memory at once. The main > roadblock to making use of this? Ripping out the existing makefiles and > replacing them with a very small shell script that does something similar > to "gcc *.c". Yep, that's a fundamental problem with make that it works only on an per-file basis (which is fine for many projects, but sometimes not). That's why I prefer an purely descriptive paragidm (= subset of delcarative, but practically no logic): a buildfile should only describe the package's structure (eg.: "i have some executable foo which consists of source [...] and imports libs [...]), so the buildtool (and user's config) can cope with it all. TreeBuild works this way: http://treebuild.metux.de/ BTW: does anyone known Plan9's mk ? cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
