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Re: automake -vs- huge projects

Paul D. Smith writes:
> %% 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.

 What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU make?
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