12 Tasty ‘Make’ Recipes, Part IV

Thursday, Aug 3, 2006
1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific / 1900 UTC

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The final batch of practical software build “recipes” from Mr. Make include: Recipe 10 on avoiding the $(wildcard) missing files trap; Recipe 11 describing making recursive Make parallel-safe; and to wrap up our Make “cookbook,” Recipe 12 demonstrates creating directories in a Makefile.

Have you resolved to conquer your company's build and release issues in 2006? Have you vowed to get down to the root cause of build failures that result in poor quality, late releases, and finger pointing between the CM and development teams?

If your builds are not as fast or as reliable as you would like them to be, this is one presentation you will not want to miss.

About the Presenters:


John Graham-Cumming is Founder and Chief Scientist at Electric Cloud. Prior to Electric Cloud, John was a Venture Consultant with Accel Partners, VP of Internet Technology at Interwoven, VP of Engineering at Scriptics, and Chief Architect at Optimal Networks. John holds BA and MA degrees in Mathematics and Computation and a Doctorate in Computer Security from Oxford University. John is the creator of GNU Make Standard Library and has six pending patents in the build space.

John Ousterhout is Founder and Chairman of Electric Cloud. He is also the creator of the Tcl scripting language and is well known for his work in distributed operating systems, high-performance file systems, and user interfaces. Prior to Electric Cloud, John was Founder and CEO of Scriptics Corporation, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. John holds a BS degree in Physics from Yale University and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

About the Sponsor

Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company. The company was founded in April 2002 by software technologists tired of seeing software projects impacted by antiquated and slow build tools. Our mission is to revolutionize the software build process by dramatically reducing build times and by making builds more reproducible, manageable, and understandable. [www.electric-cloud.com]