Re: Non-recursive make & intermediate objects

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > Please move the clean bug up in the priority level.  Automake has a
> > non-recursive user now. :-)
>
> We've had them for ages - I've been using it for 2 years now in
> progressive increasing sizes.... I keep meaning to get back to my
> transforming include patch
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2001-08/msg00112.html) to make
> authoring them less unpleasant.
>
> PR 373 is the bug I was referring to on clean - it's a general race
> condition.
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2003-07/msg00064.html is a
> relevant email in this list archives.

So this bug is only present if SUBDIRS is used to cause the Makefile
to also have a recursive aspect.

> > I suspect/believe that libtool will have some problems as well.
>
> libtool has worked fine for me, with non recursive make for 2 years now.
> Not to say there are not issues to find :}.

Right.  I have not noticed a libtool problem when using the recursive
make.  I am not using SUBDIRS so the only issue I have noticed thus
far is odd-naming of intermediate objects.

Bob
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