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From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD development question
Date: 19 May 1997 12:50:34 GMT
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In article <337F43DC.371@xxsnet.net>,
Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf <metcalf@XXsnet.net> writes:
> I would like to get into some more serious software development on
> FreeBSD, but I need to learn some of the basics.
Yeah, I think you tell the truth, after reading the rest
of your article ;-)
> For now, I was wondering how some of the complex makefiles I see
> in the FreeBSD ports are generated. Does the developer actually
> do this by hand?
Yes indeed. They are written by hand.
> That is, is the developer just an expert in the pseudo-language
> of makefiles?
Real developers are in my eyes. Simply relying on a GUI is lame.
Like the todays NT system administrators. Can handle the GUI but
nothing more :-/
> Or is there some king of ascii-based or GUI development tool
> available for UNIX that generates makefiles based on compiling
> options and the like?
There has been made a port of a Makefile generator. But I think
that you usually don't get the functionality of a hand made Makefile.
_You_ are the Software Designer (programmer) and _you_ should know
how to organize the structure of the programming project, i.e.
splitting a program in different modules and possibly different
directories, if necessary or wanted ...
> I would really be surprised if makefile generation is done
> totally by hand, since it seems so mundane and you don't really
> "seem" to learn alot from doing it. It would seem to me to
> almost certainly be a process that can be automated.
You are free to write such a fine tool, that makes everything.
> Also, does anyone know of any integrated development environments
> for UNIX (FreeBSD) that would closely approximate some of the
> capabilities of the Borland C++ Builder or the Borland Delphi
> development environments? Hopefully these questions are good ones.
No. Not in my eyes.
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