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Re: link: "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"


From: waldo <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:25:17 -0500

Christopher Vance wrote:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:57:54AM +0000, Bob Bishop wrote:

This whole problem area (fundamentally: "Make Doesn't Scale") was well-understood 20 years ago. See for instance: D. M. Tilbrook, P. R. H. Place: Tools for the Maintenance and Installation of a large Software Distribution. USENIX Summer 1986: 223-237. The approach presented therein is robust enough to be still in use today.


Any pointers on where a copy of the article might be found?
Overseas proceedings are frequently hard to find.  :-(

Try Dave Tilbrook's company: www.qef.com (though I don't think this particular paper is posted there).

Dave is wonderfully cantankerous - and generally correct.

--
waldo



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