GNU Make is a relatively modern version of one of the oldest build tools still in regular use. Make has existed since 1977 and is still the standard tool for building native software in Unix-derived environment. The pattern Make established, based on using a directed graph to automate builds, is still in use in more recent tools.
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Uncategorized | Owen | 
October 1, 2008 9:20 pm | 
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Every software system, from simple Python packages to huge enterprise-grade systems spanning massive clusters, has a build—a set of steps that must be followed to go from a source tree or a checked-out project to a ready-to-use build product. A build system’s job is to automate these steps.
Build systems are critical to software development.
They’re also one of the most common avoidable engineering failures.
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Manifestos and Rants | Owen | September 24, 2008 7:50 pm | Comments (7)
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