Re: recursive make considered harmful?

[Henning Makholm]

Scripsit address@hidden (Karl Berry)

> (Unfortunately, for automake/autoconf projects, I'm not sure there's an
> obvious way to apply these methods, because recursive make is built so
> deeply into those tools.)

I can say from my own experience that Autoconf works like a dream with
a single nonrecursive Makefile. Autoconf does not in any way dictate
the layout or internal structure of Makefile(s).

I have not used Automake (which I consider an ugly fascist Makefile
usurper), but its manual explicitly references Peter Miller's classic
article and describes how to make the single-makefile paradigm work
with it:
<http://www.gnu.org/manual/automake-1.6.1/html_node/automake_23.html>

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