From: Glen Starchman <glen@...>
Date: 2001-06-28T23:43:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17011] Re: Extension building

 
> This point is largely moot though since if we're talking about competent 
> developers, then they will find Jam much easier than make and even the less 
> competent should cope. Here's a sample from the Jam homepage:
> 
> Main smail : main.c map.c resolve.c deliver.c
>                  misc.c parser.y alias.c pw.c headers.c
>                  scanner.l getpath.c str.c ;
> 
> That small Jamfile contains everything needed to compile the .c files into .o 
> or .obj files depending on the platform and then to link smail or smail.exe 
> from those object files. It also creates useful pseudo targets like 'clean' 
> automatically, and it will also scan the .c files for #include's and update 
> the dependency graph accordingly. How much easier could it be?

You know what I really like about Makefiles? They are completely
archaic. It's true... I like having to write inline shell code that
is quoted weirdly and lines that end with a \. ;-)

Points taken, Tony. However, until Matz decides to support Jam for
the mkmkf.rb stuff I guess it is a moot point for the Ruby
community at large. Mind you, I am not *for* such a change.