[phobos] Makefile

[Sean Kelly]

On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
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> David Simcha wrote:
>> I basically flunked the build processes course and I don't actually know Make.  My success rate compiling software on Linux is well under 50%.  I loved the old make file because it required no configuration, etc. and everything always worked.  My biggest concern is that, for new school programmers that don't use makefiles in their own projects and don't know how to fix them if something goes wrong, the build process needs to Just Work (TM) without any tweaking.  I frankly don't care how messy it is under the hood.
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> I agree with everything you say, except the last sentence.

Same.  I'd rather have something easily maintainable but verbose vs. something terse and impenetrable.  The problem with the old old makefile is that any change had to be done in 3 places.  I just couldn't make sense of the new one.