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Re: Non-recursive make & maintenance issue


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: Non-recursive make & maintenance issue
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:03:54 +1100

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 03:49, Jirka Hanika wrote:


> My view is that these (and other) problems disappear if you use a
> per-directory Makefile.am; but I also see the benefits (esp. compilation
> speed) of a non-recursive Makefile.  So the solution could be to support
> generating a single Makefile from multiple Makefile.am's in
> subdirectories.  (Just kidding.  But interested in seeing the reasons
> why this is nearly impossible.)

It's completely possible - 2 years ago I did a proof of concept:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2001-08/txt00007.txt

And I've refreshed that today.

Rob
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