On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:13 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2010-07-15 16:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
That rather tedious enumeration is something that rarely changes and provides error checking where automatic enumeration does not. A build system should know if any of the relevant files are missing, and it should ignore all non-relevant files. Therefore tedious enumeration is often the best practice.
sure sometimes this is true. in other cases, it boils down to a human-written list that contains files that were non-relevant from the beginning...
Which files are non-relevant that are included in extra/Makefile?
anyhow, i'm not so objecting enumeration, but i'm very much objecting enumeration of files for extra/pd~/ in extra/Makefile. shouldn't they be enumerated in extra/pd~/Makefile?
Or how about making 'extra' have a flat directory structure, that would also simplify things. The symlinking in the existing extra makefiles is horrendous, IMHO. I've wasted too much time on those kludges.
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