[Haskell-cafe] EDSL for Makefile

[C K Kashyap]

Thanks Neil and Warren.


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Neil Brown <nccb2 at kent.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 30/09/10 09:41, C K Kashyap wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I was thinking about doing an EDSL for Makefile (as an exercise)
>> I put down my line of thought here -
>> http://hpaste.org/40233/haskell_makefile_edsl
>>
>> I'd appreciate some feedback on the approach. Also, I wanted some idea
>> on how(in the current approach) I could make the target name and the
>> dependency available to the action writer - as shown below.
>>
>> r1 = Rule {
>>        target = "file1",
>>        dependsOn = ["file2"],
>>        action = do
>>                        execute ("gcc -c " ++ dependencyList ++ " -o " ++
>> target)
>> }
>>
>>
>
> Neil Mitchell gave a talk at AngloHaskell 2009 on doing a better make in
> Haskell.  I've found the abstract on the wiki:
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/AngloHaskell/2009 but, alas, no slides to
> be found.  My memory was that he had implemented the system successfully for
> internal use at a company and it had worked out quite well.  Perhaps you can
> contact him about the slides.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil.
>



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Regards,
Kashyap