POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Make it : Re: Make it Server Time
27 Jul 2024 22:35:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Make it  
From: dick balaska
Date: 27 May 2016 11:10:25
Message: <57486361$1@news.povray.org>
Am 2016-05-27 08:39, also sprach clipka:
> Am 27.05.2016 um 12:31 schrieb scott:
>>> I can't believe I've just spent an entire day writing Makefiles... At
>>> this rate, it would almost be simpler to just write a loop to compile
>>> every source file in every directory and then link them all! But, alas,
>>> it turns out that you have to actually link them in the right order, or
>>> it doesn't work.
>>
>> Isn't there some tool to do that automatically?
>
> Absolutely. It is called "make", and needs a Makefile to work ;)

It's weird that in 2016 a 1980s program is still in charge of assembling 
large swaths of code. Ant /tried/ to take over, but that's even worse.


-- 
dik


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