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Re: Recursive make harmful
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: Recursive make harmful |
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Thu, 31 May 2001 14:29:37 -0400 |
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:09:49AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I think right now automake should have enough machinery that you could
> write a single Makefile.am for an entire project. This ought to have
> some performance benefits for the build.
Wouldn't one lose the ability to remake just a single module, as
opposed to the entire project?
So what *is* harmful about recursive makes (besides the admitted
performance penalty)?
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