Re: makefile used by the sub-make makefile!

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 11:41 +0200, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> >       install:
> >               cd subdir&&  $(MAKE)
> >
> How about
> 
> instal:
>         $(MAKE) -C subdir
> 
> Is this usual pattern? 

These are equivalent.  The advantage of the former is that it's portable
to other variants of make.  The advantage of the latter is that (as long
as you know you're using GNU make and the command is not more complex)
you get a bit of efficiency boost by avoiding a shell invocation.

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