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make shmake

make shmake

Posted Mar 2, 2007 23:33 UTC (Fri) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
In reply to: make shmake by oak
Parent article: The Road to KDE 4: CMake, a New Build System for KDE (KDE.News)

Jam already has this sort of thing built-in. So much simpler than trying to add yet another layer of complexity on top of make.


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make shmake

Posted Mar 5, 2007 13:42 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

jam strikes me more as a language to build build systems in than a build system.

I remember trying to set the equivalent of CFLAGS and prefix with Boost... it took a couple of dozen lines of patches to the build system just to do that, and a couple of patches to the jam source bundled with Boost.

Sorry, but I prefer Automake's nasty verbose makefiles to *that*.

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