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Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- From: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith at gnu dot org>
- To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- Cc: Tom Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>, Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: 16 Dec 2003 15:34:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- Organization: GNU's Not Unix!
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0312161117440.8746-100000@scooby.simplesystems.org>
- Reply-to: Paul Smith <pausmith at nortelnetworks dot com>, psmith at gnu dot org
%% Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes:
bf> Per-subdirectory rules and definitions can be added in order to
bf> significantly reduce the amount of redundant code, and to
bf> re-enable the capability to usefully override parts of the default
bf> Makefile.in.
Not if you want to continue to generate portable makefiles.
There is no way in POSIX make (for example) to generate a target in a
subdirectory using a suffix rule.
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