Inspired by Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time, and far, far too much time spent fighting autotools. Thanks to Aaron Crane, totherme and zeecat for their comments on earlier versions.It is accepted by all decent people that Make sucks and needs to die, and that autotools needs to be shot, decapitated, staked ( Read more... )

I'm currently running a lot of benchmarks in my day job, in the hope of perhaps collecting some useful data in time for an upcoming paper submission deadline - this is the "science" part of "computer science". Since getting a given benchmark suite built and running is often needlessly complex and tedious, one of my colleagues has written an ( Read more... )

[This is a cleaned-up version of the notes from my Glasgow.pm tech talk last night. The central example is lifted wholesale from apenwarr's excellent README for redo; any errors are of course my own.]
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I think that djb redo will turn out to be the Git of build systems.

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