Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [going OT] build tool design, was: tlator-0.1 initial release

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Samium" == Samium Gromoff <address@hidden> writes:

    Samium>    Starting with make-3.80 it have some additions, which,
    Samium> as i recognize, are targetting this very issue.

    Samium>    I mean $(eval ) $(call ).

Yuck.

    >> In a complex enough project, the makefiles become such a big
    >> pile of rules and variables, one hardly knows where a variable
    >> will change, where it will be expanded, if a name is free or
    >> already used

    Samium>    Variable expansion is controlled by

    Samium>     `:=' vs `='

More yuck.

Look, make is supposed to be a declarative language like Prolog.
What's happened over the years is that it has become a scripting
language with a declarative syntax.

The prosecution rests, and requests the death penalty.

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