Old snapshot `BigIntegerLibrary-2005.01.11'; see the ChangeLog file.

[bigint/bigint.git] / Makefile

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 #
 # Matt McCutchen's Big Integer Library
-#
-# Please see the project Web site at
-#    http://mysite.verizon.net/mccutchen/bigint/
-# for more information and the latest version.
-#
-# December 16, 2004 version
+# http://mysite.verizon.net/mccutchen/bigint/
 #
 
-library        : BigUnsigned.o BigInteger.o BigIntegerIO.o
+# The implicit rules we need
+%.tag : %
+       touch $@
+%.o : %.cc
+       g++ -c -O -Wall -Wextra -pedantic $<
 
-BigUnsigned.o  : BigUnsigned.h BigUnsigned.cpp
-       g++ -c BigUnsigned.cpp
+# Default target
+library : NumberlikeArray.hh.tag BigUnsigned.o BigInteger.o BigUnsignedInABase.o BigIntegerUtils.o
 
-BigInteger.o   : BigUnsigned.h BigInteger.h BigInteger.cpp
-       g++ -c BigInteger.cpp
+# Extra `include' dependencies
+BigUnsigned.hh.tag : NumberlikeArray.hh.tag
+BigUnsigned.o : BigUnsigned.hh.tag
+BigInteger.hh.tag : BigUnsigned.hh.tag
+BigInteger.o : BigInteger.hh.tag
+BigUnsignedInABase.hh.tag : BigUnsigned.hh.tag
+BigUnsignedInABase.o : BigUnsignedInABase.hh.tag
+BigIntegerUtils.hh.tag : BigInteger.hh.tag
+BigIntegerUtils.o : BigIntegerUtils.hh.tag
 
-BigIntegerIO.o : BigUnsigned.h BigInteger.h BigIntegerIO.cpp
-       g++ -c BigIntegerIO.cpp
+# sample program
+sample : library sample.cc
+       g++ -osample *.o sample.cc
 
-po3demo        : library PowersOfThreeDemo.cpp
-       g++ -opo3demo BigUnsigned.o BigInteger.o BigIntegerIO.o PowersOfThreeDemo.cpp
+clean :
+       rm -f *.tag *.o sample
 
-clean          :
-       rm -f *.o po3demo
+# The ``.tag'' mechanism allows for proper recompilation when a header file
+# changes, considering that some header files may include others.
+#
+# If a header file X includes other header
+# files Y and Z, we create a file X.tag that depends
+# on X, Y.tag, and Z.tag.  Other headers that include X should
+# depend on X.tag.
+#
+# Suppose Y is subsequently changed.  X doesn't get ``recompiled'',
+# but anything that includes X should be recompiled.  Well, Y.tag becomes
+# out-of-date, so X.tag becomes out-of-date, so anything depending on X.tag
+# (that is, anything including X) becomes out-of-date.  Magic!
+#
+# In this system, the tag files are empty files used only for their
+# timestamps.  If one wished to use precompiled headers, one could use
+# ``.gch'' files exactly how ``.tag'' files are used now, except that
+# their contents would be meaningful.
+#
+# However, the same sort of ``deadly diamond'' problem that surfaces with
+# multiple inheritance also applies to precompiled headers.  The ``#ifndef''
+# mechanism that prevents multiple inclusion doesn't work when headers are
+# compiled independently in a hierarchical structure, since the second
+# inclusion of a file won't even know there was a first inclusion.  For
+# this reason, I just use ``.tag''s.