Abstract
This paper describes a system for controlling build operations for modular programs in a distributed environment. Our build system performs complete type-checking across module boundaries, verifies user-defined constraints between a system's components, and minimizes the recompilations required when new module versions are incorporated in a rebuild. The build system is based on a formal attribute grammar model that captures and exploits the semantic attributes of the underlying build environment represented by a particular software development environment and programming language. The build environment manages the computations involved in building a specific target system by using a specialized form of incremental concurrent attribute grammar evaluation. This paper demonstrates how the attribute grammar model describes the dependencies in a build environment and efficiently initiates and coordinates the various computations required during a complex system build. We illustrate our general approach with a detailed example describing an 〈Adele, Modula-2〉 build environment.
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