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Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- From: Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu at faw dot uni-ulm dot de>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Tom Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>, Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:46:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- Organization: FAW Ulm
- References: <87pteopv13.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 17:49, Tom Tromey wrote:
> The problem is, automake generates an explicit rule for each
> compilation. Our resulting Makefile.in is nearly 9 megabytes. This
> is really much too large -- compare to 200K with automake 1.4.
For subdir-compilation/non-recursive Makefiles automake generates *2*
explicit rules (cygwin and n/cygwin) for each compilation. Folding these
two rules into one, alone would reduce the size of Makefiles using many
files by almost factor 2.
Ralf