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diff --git a/documentation/MAKE b/documentation/MAKE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50e073b --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/MAKE @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ + +@@ I was thinking about the way make handles inclusion of missing + makefile. The following strategy seems like a better choice: + if makefile is missing try to rebuild & read it immediately, + without parsing the rest of makefile and without reexecuting + make later. This approach has at least two benefits: + + + more efficient (no make re-execution) (this is not very + important in most cases, thoug) + + + more deterministic: if some of the code after (missing) + included makefile depends on some code from it (for + example a function) then things can break (example: + configuration of ORB). + + - sequential (cannot build makefile in parallel) + + +@! target/pattern-specific vpath + +@@ no `target is up to date' message when commnds are executed + but target is not changed. + +@@ %.o %.d and include + +%% implicit double expansion: now supports target/pattern variables + and $- + +%% create `examples' directory where I can put md5 and maybe hello. + +@! shortest stem |