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Your book is awesome, thanks for writing it! I converted our whole build at $DAYJOB from recursive to non-recursive, and your book helped immensely. It was a lo
by deng 8y ago
Your book is awesome, thanks for writing it! I converted our whole build at $DAYJOB from recursive to non-recursive, and your book helped immensely. It was a lot of work, but in the end it was worth it.
- jgrahamc 8y agoThat's very kind. Weirdly, I have never done a conference presentation about GNU make. If I did what would people want to hear about?
- deng 8y agoI think the main point nowadays is how to write Makefiles for highly parallel builds. It's surely the thing that gave me the most headaches. In the end such a talk will probably mostly be about how to avoid calling Make recursively. Another talk I'd like to hear, which would be more meta: does it still make sense to bother with Make at all, aside from maintaining legacy systems? Are there features or paradigms which still make it worthwhile, compared to other popular build systems?