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Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project


From: Harlan Stenn
Subject: Re: GSoC project idea: non-recursive automake project
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:45:37 -0700

Pippijn wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> > If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to use
> > automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to
> > co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of operation.
> 
> It's mostly trivial. How hard are GSoC projects supposed to be?

I'll assume you have seen my reply to Ralf.

>From my POV, I have heard folks saying for a long time how "easy" it is
to use automake to produce non-recursive Makefiles.  But I haven't seen
this in practice, and on the (few) attempts I have made to figure it out
myself and look for examples, I have not yet been able to find a really
useful solution.

What I think we'd want is a reasonably well-documented description of
how to use automake to produce a source tree where one can:

- run "make" from the top-level of the tree and all of the normal things
  happen (and all of the normal targets work)
- run "make" from a subdir, which would handle all of the normal targets
  for that subdir, and would also automatically handle *all* of the
  dependencies needed for the specified targets in that subdir (like
  prerequisite libraries).

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