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Re: Recursive make harmful
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- Subject: Re: Recursive make harmful
- From: Eric Siegerman <erics at telepres dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:29:37 -0400
- List-Id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
- Organization: Telepresence Systems Inc.
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:09:49AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I think right now automake should have enough machinery that you could
> write a single Makefile.am for an entire project. This ought to have
> some performance benefits for the build.
Wouldn't one lose the ability to remake just a single module, as
opposed to the entire project?
So what *is* harmful about recursive makes (besides the admitted
performance penalty)?
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. erics@telepres.com
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