Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69920 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55688 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2013 19:14:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Oct 2013 19:14:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.241 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.241 imap3-1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from [198.187.29.241] ([198.187.29.241:41368] helo=imap3-1.ox.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C6/69-22054-097BE625 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:14:26 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26DE2A0053 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:14:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap3.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from oxmail.registrar-servers.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap3.ox.registrar-servers.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GL9TJyJINa_9 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:14:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (unknown [94.3.245.95]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B09D2A008E for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <526EB78B.2030600@ajf.me> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:14:19 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Alternative build systems From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 27/10/13 18:30, Kevin Ingwersen wrote: > converting a makefile into a build.ninja file is not that easy at all,especially when you never learned how makefiles themselves work...like me, i don't know how makefiles work. o-o I think it's quite unreasonable of you to ask us to explain our build system to you without you doing even the most basic research yourself. Makefiles are quite simple: They are map files to file dependencies and commands to execute to create those files. But Wikipedia can explain it far better than I can. Regards, -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/