[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 10:58:33 CET 2013


On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:41:37AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Sven Barth wrote:
> >Am 05.03.2013 10:14, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> >>
> >>But on the other hand, if an application programmer could
> >>disable FPC's unit handling and use  make -j  instead, choosing
> >>to pay the price of difficult maintenance, it might defuse the
> >>criticism coming from certain quarters.
> >>
> >Make can not figure out the dependencies between units by itself
> >as it would need to parse them.
> 
> That's for the user to do, if he thinks he can do a better job than FPC.

Or implement an option that spits out the dependencies for make, so that
the user doesn't have to do this.

Henry



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