From: Gennady <bystr@...>
Date: 2003-03-15T15:29:45+09:00
Subject: Re: The onion truck strikes again ... Announcing rake


On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 08:06 PM, Seth Kurtzberg wrote:

> A couple of comments.
>
> 1.  I hate having to type Makefile instead of makefile.  make will 
> accept
> either, so any make replacement should allow the initial lower case 
> letter.
> Why anyone uses Makefile instead of makefile I've never understood...

The convention is that 'Makefile' is generated and 'makefile' is hand 
written. 'Makefile' take precedence over 'makefile', so if you generate 
'Makefile' from 'makefile' and run make again, everything works as 
expected.

Actually, we base our build system on imake (quite different from X 
environment, though) and gnumake, so in 'makefile' the code is invoked 
to generate 'Makefile' from 'Imakefile' (via include directive and a 
build rule Imakefile -> Makefile). However recently I started thinking 
about replacing imake with ruby. I like Jim's syntax, however it seems 
to me that better way would be to marry rake and gnumake, where ruby is 
used to generate Makefile from Rakefile. I'll give it a shot next week.

Gennady.