[openbeos] Re: OpenBeOS Source Tree
- From: Erik Jakowatz <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:18:45 -0800
Travis Geiselbrecht wrote:
>
> Be did not use JAM. Be had a recursive makefile system that was recently
> rewritten to be a single flat makefile with included sub-makefiles.
Ah. I stand corrected.
> I used jam at a company I worked at for a couple of weeks after Be and I
> hated it. It's pretty good for little projects, but it hides a lot of
> the customization ability of make and was not very intuitive for complex
Make can hardly be considered "intuitive" for *anything*, but I get what
you're saying.
> tasks. On top of that it had some cute messages it would print when
> thinking that really pissed me off.
If they were pissing you off, the messages must not have been cute
enough. ;)
> Anyway, I was not impressed. But it could have been that this company
> was just not using it right.
Then it looks like I need to do more research. Maybe I'll spend some
time this weekend converting my other gigano project to JAM and see how
that goes ... we've found make + build scripts to be usable, but hardly
optimal.
e
> > The IK Team has been toying with the idea of using JAM
> > instead of make.
> > Here's a lovely informational URL:
> >
> http://www.perforce.com/jam/jam.html
>
> One of the attractive features is that JAM is supposed to be quite easy
> to use for large projects: "Jam/MR can build large projects spread
> across many directories in one pass, without recursing, tracking the
> relationships among all files."
>
> Those who wish to get the full-bore overview should see (apparently a
> little dated):
>
> http://www.perforce.com/jam/doc/jam.paper.html
>
> Anyway, seems like a good time to toss the idea out to the group at
> large. =) I recall someone mentioning that Be was using JAM instead of
> make (Cedric??). Perforce also uses it to manage their own build
> process -- which, with all the platforms they support, has got to be
> pretty crazy.
>
> e
>
> Duncan Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > > Hello. My name is Aaron Davis. I am now the build meister for
> > > OpenBeOS. Michael told me my first assignment was to investigate
> > > what everyone thought of as a good source tree and then make
> > > something that everyone can live with. So thats what i'm doing. Feel
>
> > > free to e-mail me suggestions to my address
> > > (iceman@xxxxxxxxxxxx) or to the list. Any input would help me revise
> the
> > > current source tree. Thanks.
> >
> > http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html
> >
> > It's quite hard to design a non-recursive makefile tree that is
> > flexible and powerful, but it really pays off.
> >
> > Duncan
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