Re: TODO

[Noah Misch]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:28:24PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The problem is that Automake does *not* know the dependency graph of 
> each object.  Within one Makefile, this is possible (and mostly 
> supported) but most projects depend on SUBDIRS to recurse though 
> subordinate Makefiles so there is no full dependency graph of each 
> object.  The build is dependent on careful ordering by the developer 
> rather than Makefile dependencies.

Thanks for the correction.

If Automake descends into SUBDIRS to install in the same order it does to build
and uses `make' dependencies to ensure proper ordering within each SUBDIR, then
the products should relink/install in the correct order.  Right?