From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Build procedures
Date: 10 Sep 2004 21:21:43 -0400
Date: 2004-09-10T21:21:43-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.9.1094865714.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <chreuu$f7$1@titan.btinternet.com>
"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:
> "CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:41408BCE.5B2DF9F7@yahoo.com...
> > Martin Dowie wrote:
> >>
> >> I seem to remember that within the last few months there was a
> >> posting here which mentioned a quote about how any project should
> >> be able to be built with a single command from a command line.
> >> Unfortunately Google search hasn't shed any light on this message.
> >> Does anyone know the quote? Who said/wrote it? Title of
> >> publication? The actual quote?
> >
> > On most systems the command is "make". Depending on the makefile,
> > it might require an argument or two.
>
> 'make' doesn't pull out a particular version of code from a config-control
> program, or automatically run regression tests, or put the resulting output
> back under config-control and label it, or create an installation program
> etc...
Make can do all of that if you tell it to. As can Ant, or any other
full-fledged build system.
gnatmake can't, since it can't run arbitrary shell commands.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 15:06 [OT] Build procedures Martin Dowie
2004-09-09 18:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-09 19:52 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-09 19:40 ` CBFalconer
2004-09-10 5:43 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-11 1:21 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2004-09-10 9:19 ` Martin Dowie
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