Re: Non-recursive makefiles

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Stefan Puiu wrote:
> However, people haven't mentioned yet the main point in Peter Miller's
> paper - dependency handling, which I think is very important (I would
> say significantly more important than the ability to type "make clean"
> in one directory). Most people I work with are more familiar with

There should be no need to type "make clean" in a subdirectory.  Doing 
so is a rank admission that the build system is broken.  Why else 
would someone want to do a "make clean" in a subdirectory?  Perhaps 
the desire to do "make clean" in a subdirectory is aquired bad 
behavior?

That said, if one inspects the Automake generated Makefile, it does 
not take long to learn how to create specific clean targets which will 
work for a specific target.

Bob
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