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Re: Plan for single Makefile
> top_src
> \1a
> \1a\2a
> \1a\2b
> Make in 2a will behave the way it does today, just building whats in
> that dir and any dependencies, make in 1a will do a single-makefile
> build of 1a and it's subdirs.
You probably hit the nail on the head in terms of "correct approach",
but I believe this would create massive problems for automake. It would
require several passes when creating Makefile(.in)s.