[Info-vax] Native compilers

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-02-24 18:47, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 2/24/2022 11:17 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> To be honest, I'm surprised by people who write their own scripts to 
>> rebuild
>> anything when there are good tools around that helps you with that in 
>> better
>> ways than simple scripting do.
> 
> Well, as far as I know, some or all of those tools didn't exist when I 
> developed what I'll call my own "code management and build system".  
> Talking around 40 or so years here.  Since my procedures still work, are 
> well understood by me and my associates, they ain't broke, so I see no 
> reason to fix them, nor do I see any reason to keep changing to newer 
> systems when they show up.

Don't take the comment too harshly. I have plenty of scripts for 
different things as well.

But for simple compilations, I tend to make use of make pretty much 
every time. But it has not existed since forever, and if something 
already exists, I use that too.

   Johnny