Re: parallel make help

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> While it is "too late now" for this round of GSoC, it might be a really
> amazing idea to have somebody work on a project to:
>
> - make sure automake has all the needed bits to produce useful
>  non-recursive Makefiles
> - demonstrate how easy it is to set this up and convert existing
> projects

Most definitely.  If existing projects need to be supported without 
change, then the real challenge would be to extract high level 
dependency knowlege (program A depends on library B in subdirectory C 
and library D in subdirectory C, and library D also depends on library 
B in subdirectory C) in a useful way.  I suspect that it is useful to 
have a human involved with the conversion.

Existing recursive build systems can also have recursive configures 
(e.g. GDB project depends on configuring a readline library as well as 
a gdb application directory).  That makes things more confusing.

Bob
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