From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,765b1bec27141286 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Build procedures Date: 10 Sep 2004 21:21:43 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <41406f89$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <41408BCE.5B2DF9F7@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1094865715 75780 212.85.156.195 (11 Sep 2004 01:21:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 01:21:55 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3578 Date: 2004-09-10T21:21:43-04:00 "Martin Dowie" writes: > "CBFalconer" 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