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Re: Bug-make Digest, Vol 135, Issue 17


From: Tim Murphy
Subject: Re: Bug-make Digest, Vol 135, Issue 17
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:51:48 +0000

On 24 February 2014 18:33, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> I would definitely want this to be totally invisible to the user and not
> require any magic in makefiles (so no special include operator, etc.)
> Basically it should either be so safe that there's no way to tell the
> difference between using the compiled version or not (other than
> performance), or it should not be generated at all.

Just a word of caution - there is a way in which this kind of thing
can be a mistake, if you take a fairly simple request and expand it
into a general solution for all things, then hit snags and abandon the
whole effort when the initial subcase would have worked.

Regards,

Tim


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