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Re: libgtk-dev bug?



Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> (I've always been confused about make's behavior. It's a real mess.
> It's way too hard to express a number of really simple things, but I
> suppose my make gripes aren't really relevant to this discussion...)

Make is pretty easy to work with as long as you work with it as a tool
for managing many files in a directory.  [For example, it's often
better to put scripts in separate files.]

That said, even using "evaluate once" won't cure a makefile which
computes configuration information on the fly.  Make wants to work
with state information in files, not state information that it can't
get a timestamp on.

-- 
Raul


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