[phobos] Makefile

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Great. Could you please commit?

Andrei

On 03/23/2010 10:23 PM, Don Clugston wrote:
> On 18 February 2010 20:32, Walter Bright<walter at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm rewriting the Linux makefile. The existing one works well and is
>>> small, but Walter complained about it being impenetrable and I agree. It
>>> uses weird string expansions and stuff.
>>>
>>> Back when I wrote it that was the only method I could find to avoid
>>> repeating a lot of stuff for all OSs, builds, unittests, etc. Recently,
>>> inspired by Walter, I decided to go with a different approach that relies on
>>> recursive make invocations. That simplifies matters drastically: no more
>>> string expansions, no more '$$', no more crap.
>>>
>>> By this I'm asking you what you'd like to see in the makefile. What are
>>> the builds that you need and use, and what builds you'd like to use that
>>> aren't there?
>>>
>>
>> make clean =>  removes all targets built by the makefile
>> make zip =>  creates a zip file of all the sources (not targets) referred to
>> by the makefile, including the makefile
>> make release =>  makes release build of the library (this is also the default
>> target)
>> make doc =>  makes html documentation
>> make debug =>  makes debug build of the library
>> make unittest =>  builds all unittests, runs them, deletes all built unittest
>> files upon successful completion
>> make install =>  copies library to /usr/lib
>
> Something I've just noticed:   druntime uses "make doc" to make the
> docs, while phobos uses "make html".
> We should use the same build name for both. Probably druntime should change.
>
> Also doc building doesn't work out of the box on Windows.
> I fixed this by adding these lines to the top of Phobos win32.mak:
> DOCSRC = ../docsrc
> STDDOC = $(DOCSRC)/std.ddoc
>
> and replacing std.ddoc by $(STDDOC) elsewhere.
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