I'm currently working on a project at work that that
involves running some programs which generate special
assembler source files which are in turn compiled and run
on two different internal simulators and compared to an
expected output. Since there's a lot of dependancies, and
many situations where we wouldn't need to recompile code
(on different levels), "make" seemed like a good fit,
although I hadn't used it before. In just a day of working
with make, I realized that what it does (dependancies), it
does very well. And everything else is so syntax burdened
that it's nigh impossible to use elegantly.
What bothered me the most was that I felt like equivalent perl code would be less efficient because it lacked an easy way of tracking dependancies. Needless to say, I would much rather use Perl than make. Is there some way I can use perl to perform this dependancy checking shell scripting behavior in a far more elegant way than make?
-Ted
What bothered me the most was that I felt like equivalent perl code would be less efficient because it lacked an easy way of tracking dependancies. Needless to say, I would much rather use Perl than make. Is there some way I can use perl to perform this dependancy checking shell scripting behavior in a far more elegant way than make?
-Ted
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