Re: make & SCCS evilness

Larry McVoy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.bitkeeper.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:19:05PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:48 +0100, Brendan Heading wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to figure out how to build files with 
> > nested dependencies, without having to check out the whole repository or 
> > set it up in "bk get" mode. I also want to avoid modifying the makefile 
> > so that it does not need to know magic about the files that need to be 
> > checked out to perform the build. Am I trying to have my cake and eat it ?
> 
> Not necessarily.  GNU make knows how to do a get of SCCS files, and this
> works quite well.  

With one small caveat - GNU make isn't smart about doing a get of any 
includes in the Makefile.  It's a bug and I don't think it is fixed yet.

But in general it works great, our make clobber target does a bk -r clean
and a simple make builds the bk source tree, checking out files as needed.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com
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