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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 23:02:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 16:46:14 +0000, bart wrote:

> What Make does is take a mountain of complexity called a 'makefile',
> which is special kind of arcane language, and tries to run it. It might
> work, it might fail immediately, or it might grind away for several
> minutes and then it stops.

All too common with Windows, I’m afraid.

I remember when the LibreOffice project was set up as a fork from the 
moribund OpenOffice, there was a blog post reporting on initial progress, 
from Michael Meeks I think it was, saying that the Windows build still 
suffered from mysterious intermittent failures, such that retrying the 
build would usually succeed.

That kind of thing is unheard of on proper *nix systems.