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Re: Recursive make harmful
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org> writes:
Richard> You would lose the ability to build only sources in a
Richard> directory and its subdirs while ignoring files they depended
Richard> upon elsewhere in the tree which are out of date, but I'd
Richard> consider that a feature rather than a problem. You shouldn't
Richard> be wanting to build against out-of-date files.
... and with automake this only helps with things like linking against
a library anyway, since automake does full dependency tracking for
compilations.
Tom