Re: build environment: a different makefile

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:09:24AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> What do other large build systems do?

> FWIW, the MSVC build ends up writing the list of object files to a temp
> file and then having the linker read that list. (This is all done behind
> the scenes though, it's not something we made up) IIRC the gcc linker can
> also take the commandline from a file instead of the actual commandline,
> which should be workable I think.

Hmm.  I'm not sure that's universal, but if it is then a simple
incremental improvement on what we're doing now would be to replace the
SUBSYS.o files with "subsys include files" that just list all the .o
files to be included.
        regards, tom lane