Observation Of The Day
Several short but sweet observations of the day.
- 10,000 Hz Legend by Air is very, very poor compared to Moon Safari. The first two tracks are an exercise in strange audio effects on vocals, and track 3 sounds like a bad 80s rock song.
- How does anyone get anything done with a make which doesn't support pattern matching rules? Being forced to use a non-GNU make is right up there with dripping water torture.
- Today I discovered a very nice Toshiba laptop, which is totally unavailable to the European market. I suspect it's a Japanese model, and was very sexy (as far as laptops can be, anyway).
NP: 10,000Hz Legend, Air.
Posted by Daniel Silverstone at Tue May 11 18:45:39 2004:
Being forced to use a non GNU-Make teaches you all the magic of suffix rules. It also makes you appreciate far more the powers of automake.
Posted by Ross at Tue May 11 19:38:04 2004:
By magic I presume you meant "crippled". I nearly cried when I discovered that ".c.asm: foo" doesn't mean that foo is a dependency on a rule from .asm to .c, but that the file .c.asm depends on foo.
Posted by Jon at Tue May 11 20:32:23 2004:
forgive me if I'm brain farting but why would .c.asm be a rule asm->c? it's written L->R 'c->asm' and it means c->asm...
I'm interested in a generic dependency for a transition .x->.y except for the file .x itself.. where would you use .c.asm: foo to mean this?
Posted by Ross at Tue May 11 21:59:00 2004:
I'm interested in a generic dependency for a transition .x->.y except for the file .x itself.. where would you use .c.asm: foo to mean this?
Yes, my mistake: ".c.asm:" is what I meant: make foo.asm from foo.c.
".c.asm: foo" is broken syntax with suffix rules in make, and doesn't mean anything like the "usual" "%.asm: %.c foo".
Posted by Dave C at Wed May 12 06:39:23 2004:
".c.asm: foo" is broken syntax with suffix rules in make, and doesn't mean anything like the "usual" "%.asm: %.c foo".
Well, I was going to post a witty retort and trounce the lot of you, but now I am far too confused and think I'll just stick with the good old water torture.
Posted by kaz at Thu May 13 16:33:17 2004:
