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From: "Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
To: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 26459@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each 'git pull'
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:37:33 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f79d1e5967d0ad3a7dfc404ee2daa513.squirrel@cloud103.planethippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d784b430-23ce-40a0-f521-7c66fb0f7606@cs.ucla.edu>

On Wed, April 26, 2017 8:24 pm, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 04/26/2017 11:32 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> After more investigation, I believe this is unfixable, given the
>> limitations of recursive make.
>
> How about if we switch to nonrecursive make? That is, have the top-level
> makefile include the subsidiary makefiles, instead of having it run $(MAKE)
> for each subsidiary makefile. This would be a major change, but it has
> some real advantages, and other projects (e.g., coreutils) have switched
> to this approach to good effect.


That might help simplify some of the strange stuff in the makefiles --
having the Makefile in src call the Makefile in lisp is confusing.






  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-26 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-12  8:54 bug#26459: 26.0.50; loaddefs.el is regenerated after each "git pull" Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-12 15:58 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-12 16:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-12 16:43     ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-12 18:09       ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-13  7:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-13  9:03         ` Ken Raeburn
2017-04-13 22:44         ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-14  1:08           ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-14  7:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-14 17:08               ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-15  1:25             ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-15  7:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-26 18:32                 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-26 20:24                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-26 20:37                     ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2017-04-26 20:47                     ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-12 21:37 ` Paul Eggert
2017-04-13  7:09   ` Eli Zaretskii

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