New well tested makepp snapshot released

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Makepp is getting ever faster, again 10% to 15% faster than last one.
The new well tested beta snapshot fixes various bugs, a *must* for users
of the option combination -kj <n>.

The integrated build cache now offers statistics and can be replicated,
giving greater time savings for multiple disks or machines. On Linux and
Solaris this also saves much space.

C/C++ developer, especially those who preprocess or generate sources,
may be glad to hear that all builtin filters (except &sort) can now
generate cpp-style line synchronization.

All commands now have abbreviations like mpp for makepp, mppc for
makeppclean and mppl for makepplog.

Homepage: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/
Documentation: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/1.50/
Download: http://search.cpan.org/~pfeiffer/

 

[Keith Thompson]

Makepp is getting ever faster, again 10% to 15% faster than last
one.

[...]

That's nice. It would have been even nicer to mention what "makepp" is.
Quoting the home page:

Makepp is a drop-in replacement for GNU make which has a number of
features that allow for more reliable builds and simpler build
files.

Useful, I'm sure, but off-topic in comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.

 

[jacob navia]

Makepp is getting ever faster, again 10% to 15% faster than last one.
The new well tested beta snapshot fixes various bugs, a *must* for users
of the option combination -kj <n>.

The integrated build cache now offers statistics and can be replicated,
giving greater time savings for multiple disks or machines. On Linux and
Solaris this also saves much space.

C/C++ developer, especially those who preprocess or generate sources,
may be glad to hear that all builtin filters (except &sort) can now
generate cpp-style line synchronization.

All commands now have abbreviations like mpp for makepp, mppc for
makeppclean and mppl for makepplog.

Homepage: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/
Documentation: http://makepp.sourceforge.net/1.50/
Download: http://search.cpan.org/~pfeiffer/

From the documentation this looks like the rolls royce of all
make utilities...

Like the project management of lcc-win32, it will find out
the dependencies of the source files by following the include
directives in the source.

But it will also detect command line changes, for instance

and in your src.h you have
typedef struct tagExample {
char *p;
int a;
#ifdef FOO
long double m;
#endif
double xyz;
} EXAMPLE;

If you compiled with

cc -c src.c

many make utilities will not discover that src.c needs to be
recompiled when you add the -DFOO option, and you will have
a LONG and frustrating debugging session!!!

lcc-win32's project management catches this by including
in the project description all the -D defines, but if
you do not use an IDE you are stuck.

This is by the way a big hole in the language (C AND C++)
since the -D compiler directives aren't at all part of the
source code, or the language itself.

Other goodies include simpler recursive project management
(what lcc-win32 doesn't do at all sigh...), repositories
(something that can be emulated with the VPATH variable
under some make utilities in Unix) and many other features.

This runs only under Unix. Windows users are left in the cold.
A pity... since this is written in perl, a port to windows
is (maybe) not so far away.

jacob