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12 Tasty ‘Make’ Recipes - Part II of a IV Part Webcast Series

John Graham-Cumming, John Ousterhout

Date: May 24 - 1:00 PM

Track: Tools and Technology
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Session Abstract:
Expand your software build repertoire. Join us for this 2-part of a series in discussions of practical techniques for enhancing and optimizing your GNU Make Makefiles. During the ALM Expo, as John Graham-Cumming presents the next three “recipes” for improving your Make-based builds. Recipe 4 shows how to determine the version of GNU Make in a Makefile, or if a specific GNU Make feature is available. Recipe 5 is performing a recursive $(wildcard), and Recipe 6 will demonstrate tricks for tracing rule execution.

John Graham-Cumming is Founder and Chief Scientist at Electric Cloud. John is also the author of the "Ask Mr. Make" column in the CM Crossroads publication CM Basics and features on an online build Software Build Resource Center at Ask Mr. Make.

 

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 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.


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