Re: pp only to create executable when source has changed

[muba]

in reply to pp only to create executable when source has changed

my %files =
    "source1.pl"    => " source1.exe",
    "source2.pl"    => " source2.exe",
    ...
    "source375.pl"    => " source375.exe",
);

while (my ($source, $exe) = keys %files) {
    my ($source, $exe) = splice(@ARGV, 0, 2);
    if (-m $source > -m $exe) {
        system "pp -o $exe --link=C:\strawberry\c\bin\libmysql_.dll -x
+ -c -vvv $source";
    }
}

[LanX]

Sorry but

    if (-m $source > -m $exe) {

where do I find the docs of this -m function?

UPDATE:

     while (my ($source, $exe) = keys %files) {

did you really mean keys? not each?

         my ($source, $exe) = splice(@ARGV, 0, 2);

and now your directly overwriting the loop vars?

[muba]

You raise valid points. -m should have been -M, keys should have been each, and that splice line shouldn't be there at all. My bad.

[LanX]

Thanks for pointing me to -M, I didn't know that it exists.

OTOH it's practically useless because it only counts in days, it's very hard to imagine a valid usecase!

(Beside maybe log-rotation on a daily basis)

forget my last remarks, wrong tests indicated complete days, but actually floats are fine!

[gepebril69]

Aha, I get it, you make a script that checks the date of modification of a file. If the modification time of the .pl (perl script) is greater than the corresponding .exe (executable file), you generate a new executable.

Never looked at the problem from this angle. But this wont help you 100% on the dependencies, like when I require a .pl, which store the genetal subroutines. So now I get the use and power of a make file

So final stage is finding a good example of a makefile using PAR:Packer, so pp instead of cc so I can parse my code into)

[gepebril69]

Has anyone an idea of how to do this as GNU make seems to be quite complex for a newbie like me and all examples are in C.