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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,206547e68a60b0e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to cache output of the compiler aka ccache Date: 17 Mar 2005 21:08:52 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1111085641.211767.56950@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <87zmx23uon.fsf@insalien.org> <87oedh4ugj.fsf@insalien.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01-e.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1111111733 30289 69.38.147.31 (18 Mar 2005 02:08:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 02:08:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9576 Date: 2005-03-17T21:08:52-05:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta writes: > Hehe... C had separate compilation, but no dependency management. To > overcome this limitation, Makefiles were created, but they were not > portable enough. To overcome this limitation, configure scripts were > created. At first simple, they had to take into account the > idiosyncrasies of more and more host and target platforms and became > unwieldy and fragile. To overcome this limitation, autoconf was > created, but it still cannot possibly know everything about every host > and target platform. To overcome this limitation, automake was > created. > > Now, autoconf and automake work hand in hand, each using a mix of > several cryptic languages. They have become so fiendlishly difficult > to maintain that few people if any at all understand how they work. > To overcome this limitation, ... > > Verily this is not the Tao of Programming :) The strange thing is, it wouldn't be all that hard for a C compiler vendor to provide a tool for building C programs that would be just as reliable about maintaining consistency as an ada builder -- without having to type a bazillion (usually wrong) dependences into a make file. Seems a lot easier to deal with than automatically-generated make files. - Bob