Better docs for D (WIP)
Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 6 05:50:19 PST 2016
On 2016-01-05 15:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> There's been a recent discussion with Walter and Martin about using
> wildcards in makefiles (which would obviate the necessity of being
> explicit about files).
>
> My understanding is that build scripts (including makefiles) are
> recommended to include a manifest list of files that are part of the
> project, as opposed to picking up files with wildcards. That way there's
> less likelihood to pick up litter along with the legitimate files, or to
> produce incomplete builds if some files are missing by mistake. The
> underlying thesis is that that's a good kind of redundancy.
druntime already uses wildcards [1], if I read the makefile correctly,
in some places.
[1]
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/posix.mak#L147-L159
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