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Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- To: Paul Smith <pausmith at nortelnetworks dot com>
- Cc: Tom Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>, Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:40:02 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: automake -vs- huge projects
On 16 Dec 2003, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% 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.
Bummer. I wasn't sure about that. At the very least, an effort could
be made to decrease the Makefile size by making maximum use of macro
substitutions.
Bob
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