Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.1 plans

[Jonathan Walther]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:34:15PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > If it will be small, portable, and reasonably efficient, and include
> > support for macros, I would like to use it to create an alternative to
> > "make" that also folds in the conveniences of imake.
>
> IMHO, Peter Miller's cook is already a very usable make alternative...

Does it give me the full programming power of the Scheme language?  I
envision something like this:

(rule "foo" (list "a1.o" "a2.o" "a3.o")
        (strcat (CC) " " (CFLAGS) " " (DEPENDS) " -o " (TARGET)))

With macro facilities, the sky is the limit; imake and autotools
functionality can be extended on with very little extra effort.  It's
not about replacing make; it's about replacing the whole damn build
system. :)

Jonathan

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