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add sh/bash to pain list

add sh/bash to pain list

Posted Feb 22, 2007 12:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: add sh/bash to pain list by cate
Parent article: The Road to KDE 4: CMake, a New Build System for KDE (KDE.News)

Looking at the most monstrous makefiles I could find (glibc and gcc) the occasional `move-if-change' is not a killer.

What does make things nastier is the need for -stamp files everywhere to model X-to-many dependencies and cope with parallel make...


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