20050202 Wednesday February 02, 2005

Java

Makefiles are satan's contribution to software Probably a bit harsh but one of the places I always have trouble is with Makefiles. Regardless of whether I'm building Java or C I normally fall foul of something (Note: I use Apache Ant for all my own personal projects).

My current pet peeve is with Makefiles and jar files. The part of a source tree I am working in generates lots of class files and a handful of jar files. However the ability of the makefiles to correctly rebuild the jar files after I have touched some source appears to be random. This means on occasions when I'm testing changes I find I'm still using old code. This so wastes my time.

(2005-02-02 01:59:28.0) Permalink Comments [3]

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Makefiles? Nah..... they're a dream compared to autof00 (autoconf/automake)!

Posted by benr on February 02, 2005 at 02:27 AM PST #

Well, why don't you just go all the way and fire up MS VC++? Maybe you'll love make files then.

Posted by Anders Grönlund on February 02, 2005 at 05:48 AM PST #

Anders, You are one twisted individual :).

Posted by grahamm on February 02, 2005 at 06:00 AM PST #

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