Computers and Internet - Discussions pertaining to hardware, software, internet, web design, internet, programming and more.
Computer Software - From operating systems to information management applications. Anti Virus programs to Video Editing. Share your views on the software you are using or ask questions about software you are looking to buy.
Ask Mr. Make - Articles on makefile optimization, build management and acceleration, etc.
An Automatic Make Facility - Holyer and Pehlivan 2000 - Program uses no makefile. It records manually-issued compilation commands the first time round, then rebuilds programs using recorded command traces.
A Case For Make - Fowler 1990 - Explains many old-make limitations and new-make (Nmake) features including procedure rules, accuracy mechanisms, viewpathing, and semaphores for blocking unwanted parallelism.
Distcc, A Fast Free Distributed Compiler - Pool 2003 - This paper describes a distributed compiler for C/C++ programs, and provides a good discussion of key issues related to parallel, distributed software builds.
The Fourth Generation Make - Fowler 1985 - A new make tool with support for CPP, dependency generation, compiled makefiles, parallel execution, pathname parsing operators, and a powerful metalanguage for builtin rules.
Make - A Program For Maintaining Computer Programs - Feldman 1979 - The original make paper, including makefile syntax, implicit rules, double colon targets, macros, VPATH macro, and the usual cleanup and install targets.
Makefile Setup for Java - Geosoft - A GNU Make and shell script setup for Java. Features dependency scanning, class files, JAR archives, JNI interfaces, RMI stub and skeletons, and Javadoc.
PGMAKE: A Portable Distributed Make System - Lih and Zadok 1994 - Reports design issues and results of modifying GNU Make to do distributed makes using the Oakridge PVM Parallel Virtual Machine.
Recursive Make Considered Harmful - Miller 1997 - An argument against using recursive make techniques in the presence of cyclic dependencies among project subdirectories.
Recursive vs Non-recursive Makefile Architecture Speed Comparison - Kolpackov 2004 - This document compares recursive and non-recursive build systems (GNU make -j N) for building 277 software files in 15 directories using various combinations of parallelism and hardware. Non-recursive builds are faster.
Software Builds - Codefast - Contains many articles on software build topics such as problem scope, stakeholder design viewpoints, directory structures, architecture models, makefile generator tools and software build methods.
