Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 04/05/2012 06:37 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> On 04/05/2012 06:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>> [SNIP reasonable observations]
>>>
>>> Yes, but I haven't given up.
>>>
>> What about this: I conclude the transition to a non-recursive build
>> system by creating a top-level monolithic Makefile.am, then we do whatever
>> refactoring and de-duplication we can manage to, and finally we split out
>> the monolith into sub-directory 'local.mk' files (we might do this one
>> sub-directory at the time).  Notice that, despite the appearences, this
>> won't introduce much extra churn, because the existing 'Makefile.am's
>> would basically be re-written anyway in the transition to a non-recursive
>> setup.
> 
> That sounds fine.
> Thanks for keeping an open mind.
>
Thanks to you for being flexible and patient.  I've committed the patch
now.  Soon more to follow, to remove the last make recursion (the one for
the testsuite).

Regards,
  Stefano