Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Could automake-generated Makefiles required GNU make?

[Miles Bader]

Dave Hart <address@hidden> writes:
> If anyone knows of examples of
> non-recursive Makefile implementations that manage to preserve the
> recursive make property of being able to make in a subdir to make a
> subset, please share so we can learn from their pioneering.

Could you just put a (probably constant) stub Makefile in each
subdirectory, which simply invokes the top-level Makefile with an
appropriate parameter to indicate which subdirectory it came from...?

-Miles

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