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Re: Plan for single Makefile


> So how about this?  Write a Makefile in each subdirectory, that:
>   - includes all the dependency and command info from the
>     entire project
>   - relocates directory paths to make sense from the directory in
>     question
>   - customizes the phony targets to include only the ones from
>     that directory and below
> 
> 1a\Makefile would look like:
> 	ROOT = ..
> 	include $(ROOT)/Makefile
> 

IIRC include is one of the not-as-portable-as-it-could-be make features.

I was aiming to only use the Makefile features used by automake today..

Rob
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