Problem in Genode building system?

[Norman Feske]

Hi Frank,

cool to see a life sign of you!

> Youre example is one of several reasons for which I do not understand
> that people keep staying with MAKE, although other build tools exist
> (for instance SCONS) which do not produce this kind of failures.

the choice of basing our build system on make rather than SCons was
actually an informed decision. At an early stage of the project, our
build system was ported to SCons by Ludwig Hähne. You can read about his
findings here:

  http://www.genode-labs.com/publications/scons-vs-make-2008.pdf

In short, his thesis motivated us to reconsider the build system's
architecture (based on recursive make) we used back then in favor of our
current two-stage build concept. But we stayed with using make as
underlying dependency-resolution mechanism.

Cheers
Norman

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