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From: Frank Heckenbach
Subject: cgp? (was: GP ;-)
Date: 30 May 2004, 00:57:42

Grant Jacobs wrote:

> >As I said, I don't think "make" is a good thing to think of for a
> >*normal* Pascal programmer. We're, of course, deep in the internals,
> >but a normal programm doesn't want to (and shouldn't have to) think
> >about when a compiler recreates which files. It should just produce
> >a correct executable.
> 
> You could try keep it all within gpc as so not to generate another 
> name that could conflict. Make gpc itself a small program that 
> manages whatever programs do the actual work.

That's what the program in question ("GP") actually is. (So, as I
suggested, we could rename the existing gpc executable and call this
one gpc. But I'm not sure yet, because it is an incompatible change
...)

> Have users pass options
> to this to invoke the appropriate action either as a '-' option, e.g.
> 
> gpc -make <file(s)>

gp file

> or take it a bit further in the spirit of make install, make clean:
> 
> gpc compile <options>

gp -c file

> gpc link <options>

gp file

> gpc clean <options>

gp --clean file

It's all there.

Of course, if one wants to build external stuff (manuals etc.), this
is not covered (and shouldn't be IMHO). One should use a real make
then (which can invoke "gp" in turn).

Frank

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