<rant> D's makefiles... </rant>

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 13:12 +0000, Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I did a `git up` on dmd, druntime and phobos, but phobos wouldn't 
> build. Weird, but I had to fork phobos anyway, let me do that. 
> Still wouldn't build. I tried `make clean`, can't remember 
> exactly what happened but that didn't work either.
> 
> In the end I `rm -rf`ed dmd and druntime, recloned them, rebuilt 
> them and _then_ phobos could build.
> 
> Feels like when I wrote Makefiles by hand, I'd forgotten it could 
> get this bad.

Make was a revelation and a revolution, in 1977.  Things have progressed in 
the last 37 years. Sadly a large number of C, C++, D, etc. programmers seem 
to be convinced that build technology reached a pinnacle in 1992 and 
stopped progressing.
 
-- 
Russel.
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