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A comment on Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf].

Re:Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf] by vmsp on Sunday July 16, 2023 @07:00AM (#36745572)
For those curious, Mk is available in Plan 9 from User Space

https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/

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Re:Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf] by jacobvosmaer on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:57AM (#36747054)
I tried plan9port's mk for a moment out of curiosity. I quickly ran into an annoying usability problem: it compares file mtimes with second accuracy.

https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/cc4571fec67407652b03...

With sub-second build times for individual targets, this causes mk to needlessly recompile files because the target may have the same mtime as the prerequisites.

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Re:Mk: A Successor to Make [pdf] by jmrjmr on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:50AM (#36755660)
That looks like it would be relatively straightforward to fix. Attempted nerd snipe?
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