Re: Help-make Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7

[John Fisher]

> Mike Shal wrote:
>
> After all GNU make is not "the reference implementation of an alpha build
> system".  It is a piece of code with a long history with more going on
> than just a few O(n) lookups.  You might find features like checkout
> from RCS/SCCS version control via built-in rules which is obsolete stuff
> since long ago, still everyone using GNU make today is paying for it with
> maybe 80% of it's total CPU time, worldwide. (Try "make -r ..." to see
> what I mean).
I have been using -r routinely with make for a long time. My system for 
make does not use the built-in rules, but has its own pattern rules for 
everything required.