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Re: Problem with recursive make.

On 2008-09-09 17:53, co************* **@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups, to ask this
question? After all, it does not have anything to do with C++, nor does
it have anything to do with Ford cars either, but I somehow suspect that
you did not ask in alt.autos.ford.
I got the below paper and found the problems with which recursive make
have. I guess FreeBSD use recursive make. Can any one comment on it
and please clear my doubts why we use recursive make.
Because recursive make is easy to do and understand and once someone had
done it everyone else thought that it was the way to go?

--
Erik Wikström
Sep 9 '08 #1
10 1459
On Sep 9, 10:26*pm, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia. comwrote:
On 2008-09-09 17:53, contactmayankj. ..@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,

And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups, to ask this
question? After all, it does not have anything to do with C++, nor does
it have anything to do with Ford cars either, but I somehow suspect that
you did not ask in alt.autos.ford.
I guess all I mean most of the C++ developers are familiar with the
Makefiles and automake.... so its the best place to discuss.
I got the below paper and found the problems with which recursive make
have. I guess FreeBSD use recursive make. Can any one comment on it
and please clear my doubts why we use recursive make.

Because recursive make is easy to do and understand and once someone had
done it everyone else thought that it was the way to go?
Can't we improve if something is having bug?
Mayank Jain
>
--
Erik Wikström
Sep 10 '08 #2
On Sep 10, 3:11 am, "contactmayankj ...@gmail.com"
<contactmayankj ...@gmail.comwr ote:
On Sep 9, 10:26 pm, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia. com>
wrote:On 2008-09-09 17:53, contactmayankj. ..@gmail.com
wrote:
And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups,
to ask this question? After all, it does not have anything
to do with C++, nor does it have anything to do with Ford
cars either, but I somehow suspect that you did not ask in
alt.autos.ford.
I guess all I mean most of the C++ developers are familiar
with the Makefiles and automake....
I doubt it. I'm familiar with GNU make (but not other makes),
but I have no idea what automake does---I've never heard of it.
And I'm definitely a C++ developer.
so its the best place to discuss.
Most C++ developers understand English, so this is the best
place to discuss English grammar. Most C++ developers eat, so
this is the best place to discuss food.

Non sequitur.

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Sep 10 '08 #3
James Kanze wrote:
Most C++ developers eat, so this is the best place to discuss food.
If bad response times give 'em a chance to do so, yep :-)

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Sep 10 '08 #4
On Sep 10, 2:04*pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 10, 3:11 am, "contactmayankj ...@gmail.com"

<contactmayankj ...@gmail.comwr ote:
On Sep 9, 10:26 pm, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia. com>
wrote:On 2008-09-09 17:53, contactmayankj. ..@gmail.com
wrote:
And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups,
to ask this question? After all, it does not have anything
to do with C++, nor does it have anything to do with Ford
cars either, but I somehow suspect that you did not ask in
alt.autos.ford.
I guess all I mean most of the C++ developers are familiar
with the Makefiles and automake....

I doubt it. *I'm familiar with GNU make (but not other makes),
but I have no idea what automake does---I've never heard of it.
And I'm definitely a C++ developer.
so its the best place to discuss.

Most C++ developers understand English, so this is the best
place to discuss English grammar. *Most C++ developers eat, so
this is the best place to discuss food.
I am not only interested in what autotools can do. I am interested to
know are they doing things in right way or wrong.

So query like "how is the food" can only be best answered by those who
have
actually eaten the food. I am surprised why you have any problem with
my
query. This is a good topic to discuss and is of benefit to all of
us. Am I clear to you?
>
Non sequitur.

--
James Kanze (GABI Software) * * * * * * email:james.ka. ..@gmail.com
Conseils en informatique orientée objet/
* * * * * * * * * *Beratung in objektorientier ter Datenverarbeitu ng
9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
Sep 10 '08 #5
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:11:59 -0700, co************* **@gmail.com wrote:
On Sep 9, 10:26Â*pm, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia. comwrote:
>On 2008-09-09 17:53, contactmayankj. ..@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,

And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups, to ask
this question? After all, it does not have anything to do with C++, nor
does it have anything to do with Ford cars either, but I somehow
suspect that you did not ask in alt.autos.ford.
I guess all I mean most of the C++ developers are familiar with the
Makefiles and automake....
Not at all - especially in the MS Windows world.
so its the best place to discuss.
Not at all - make and autotools are simply off-topic here. I suggest you
try some appropriate mailing lists. See e.g.:

http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=make
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/#mailinglists
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/

--
Lionel B
Sep 10 '08 #6
On Sep 10, 12:27 pm, Gennaro Prota <gennaro/pr...@yahoo.com wrote:
James Kanze wrote:
Most C++ developers eat, so this is the best place to discuss food.
If bad response times give 'em a chance to do so, yep :-)
Now I know why so many programmers are into template
meta-programming. Compile times give them a chance to eat:-).

--
James Kanze (GABI Software) email:ja******* **@gmail.com
Conseils en informatique orientée objet/
Beratung in objektorientier ter Datenverarbeitu ng
9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
Sep 10 '08 #7
On Sep 10, 1:16 pm, "contactmayankj ...@gmail.com"
<contactmayankj ...@gmail.comwr ote:
On Sep 10, 2:04 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 10, 3:11 am, "contactmayankj ...@gmail.com"
<contactmayankj ...@gmail.comwr ote:
On Sep 9, 10:26 pm, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia. com>
wrote:On 2008-09-09 17:53, contactmayankj. ..@gmail.com
wrote:
And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups,
to ask this question? After all, it does not have anything
to do with C++, nor does it have anything to do with Ford
cars either, but I somehow suspect that you did not ask in
alt.autos.ford.
I guess all I mean most of the C++ developers are familiar
with the Makefiles and automake....
I doubt it. I'm familiar with GNU make (but not other
makes), but I have no idea what automake does---I've never
heard of it. And I'm definitely a C++ developer.
so its the best place to discuss.
Most C++ developers understand English, so this is the best
place to discuss English grammar. Most C++ developers eat,
so this is the best place to discuss food.
I am not only interested in what autotools can do. I am
interested to know are they doing things in right way or
wrong.
So how does that have anything to do with C++?
So query like "how is the food" can only be best answered by
those who have actually eaten the food.
And? The fact that most C++ programmers have actually eaten
food at some time doesn't make questions about it relevant here.
I am surprised why you have any problem with my query.
Well, it's blatently off topic.
This is a good topic to discuss and is of benefit to all of
us. Am I clear to you?
No. It may be a good topic to discuss, but then only in an
appropriate newsgroup. And it's certainly not of benefit to all
of us here---I suspect that most C++ programmers are like me,
and have no idea what this tool is that you're talking about.

--
James Kanze (GABI Software) email:ja******* **@gmail.com
Conseils en informatique orientée objet/
Beratung in objektorientier ter Datenverarbeitu ng
9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
Sep 10 '08 #8
On Sep 10, 9:15*pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 10, 1:16 pm, "contactmayankj ...@gmail.com"



<contactmayankj ...@gmail.comwr ote:
On Sep 10, 2:04 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gm ail.comwrote:
On Sep 10, 3:11 am, "contactmayankj ...@gmail.com"
<contactmayankj ...@gmail.comwr ote:
On Sep 9, 10:26 pm, Erik Wikström <Erik-wikst...@telia. com>
wrote:On 2008-09-09 17:53, contactmayankj. ..@gmail.com
wrote:
And why did you pick this group, out of all possible groups,
to ask this question? After all, it does not have anything
to do with C++, nor does it have anything to do with Ford
cars either, but I somehow suspect that you did not ask in
alt.autos.ford.
I guess all I mean most of the C++ developers are familiar
with the Makefiles and automake....
I doubt it. *I'm familiar with GNU make (but not other
makes), but I have no idea what automake does---I've never
heard of it. *And I'm definitely a C++ developer.
so its the best place to discuss.
Most C++ developers understand English, so this is the best
place to discuss English grammar. *Most C++ developers eat,
so this is the best place to discuss food.
I am not only interested in what autotools can do. I am
interested to know are they doing things in right way or
wrong.

So how does that have anything to do with C++?
So query like "how is the food" can only be best answered by
those who have actually eaten the food.

And? *The fact that most C++ programmers have actually eaten
food at some time doesn't make questions about it relevant here.
I am surprised why you have any problem with my query.

Well, it's blatently off topic.
This is a good topic to discuss and is of benefit to all of
us. Am I clear to you?

No. *It may be a good topic to discuss, but then only in an
appropriate newsgroup. *And it's certainly not of benefit to all
of us here---I suspect that most C++ programmers are like me,
and have no idea what this tool is that you're talking about.

--
James Kanze (GABI Software) * * * * * * email:james.ka. ..@gmail.com
Conseils en informatique orientée objet/
* * * * * * * * * *Beratung in objektorientier ter Datenverarbeitu nga
9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
Cann't you see the above posts. People have shared there opinion and
have actually resolved my query. Is it necessary for you to send your
reply. If you are not interested in this topic can't you keep your
mouth shut and let people to discuss who are interested.
Mayank Jain
Sep 10 '08 #9
co************* **@gmail.com wrote:
Cann't you see the above posts. People have shared there opinion and
have actually resolved my query. Is it necessary for you to send your
reply. If you are not interested in this topic can't you keep your
mouth shut and let people to discuss who are interested.
Have a look at

<http://www.parashift.c om/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.12>

and, *in general*, be familiar with "netiquette ". Google for the term.

--
Gennaro Prota | name.surname yahoo.com
Breeze C++ (preview): <https://sourceforge.net/projects/breeze/>
Do you need expertise in C++? I'm available.
Sep 10 '08 #10

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