Re: make: should -j affect cwd?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:21:55AM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
 > People who should know say the code verges on unmaintainable.  

No, no. It's a mess, so are other things. Some real horrors you should
consider by comparison (in descending order) include:
   - telnet
   - linux's floppy driver (certainly circa 10 years ago if not still)
   - nfsmout
   - namei and ufs_lookup in -5 (or worse, earlier)
   - ufs_rename in -5
   - binutils
   - gmake
On this scale our make doesn't even register.

Meanwhile, either reimplementing or redesigning make is a waste of
time. Many people have tried redesigning make over the years; the
results never go anywhere. BSD make is essentially the only time this
failed to happen, and it's still marginalized in the wider world.

-- 
David A. Holland
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