ECE 2524 - make and more

ECE 2524

Introduction to Unix for Engineers

make and more

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Questions from last week

  • how are “easy IPC” and “single process monolith” related?
  • Culture and technical reasons Engine Interface separation more common in Unix
  • bc uses isatty(3) to switch between interactive and non-interactive modes (see source at /usr/src/bc-1.06/)

make and Makefiles

  • a DSL to describe dependancy trees

  • a list of rules

target : prerequisites
       recipe