Re: automake -vs- huge projects

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:

  bf> Per-subdirectory rules and definitions can be added in order to
  bf> significantly reduce the amount of redundant code, and to
  bf> re-enable the capability to usefully override parts of the default
  bf> Makefile.in.

Not if you want to continue to generate portable makefiles.

There is no way in POSIX make (for example) to generate a target in a
subdirectory using a suffix rule.

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