On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 03:00:02PM -0200, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> > That said, on all my PIC projects to date I don't even use dependencies.
> > Everything is compiled into one static image. Microprocessor code is so
> > small, and modern computers are so fast, it's not even worth the bother
> > I find for my projects. We're not talking about the millions of lines of
> > code in the Linux kernel after all!
> 
> Yes, but without dependencies, there's no need for make at all. Without
> them, the makefile collapses usually to a single line batch file. OTOH,
> there are quite a number of projects with complexities between the Linux
> kernel and trivial projects that only need a couple files. I find that most
> of my embedded projects are in that space between :)

And often those trivial projects grow to not so trivial projects... Or
you just cut-n-pasted your development directory from a non-trivial
project to a trivial one... I do that a *lot*

In any case make does have a decent, and simple, syntax so your targets
can be "make" "make burn" "make new_serial_number" whatever. Anyway,
even if my source code is a single image, often I do have dependencies
on automagically generated tables of values, such as serial numbers,
stepper motor driver tables and math constants. Those can take a little
longer to build from scratch.

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