Proposals for changes to searching behaviour

[Andre Pang]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:03:10PM -0500, nilsson@cs.yale.edu wrote:

> If, say, a library consists of the top-level module "A.B.C" and
> a bunch of internal components "A.B.C.M1", "A.B.C.M2", etc.,
> I can't see why I should not be allowed to put them all in one
> directory. 

I think that's the selling point for me.  I'm now convinced it's
a good idea.

That being said, I wrote that message because I've been
struggling with obscure build tools for the last few days, which
work fine until they break -- then you're in for hours of pain.
So I prefer to stick to fairly obvious, explicit ways of doing
something, and I guess I saw Simon's second suggestion as another
way to have more pain-inducing bizarre build schemes via make.

(Of course, this relies on the developer wanting to invent
bizarre Makefiles, but I've seen _plenty_ of Makefiles where
I can't even _begin_ to work out how they work.  That's my fear.)

> Another reason is how it interacts with tools like "Make". I've
> already mentioned the VPATH mechanism.

It's all bad once that VPATH word gets mentioned ;).


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