From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Aggregated makefiles Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:34:51 +0000 Message-ID: <874oy2ebhg.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <877i2zitif.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236627345 19779 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2009 19:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 09 20:37:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from terminus-est.gnu.org ([66.92.78.210] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LglH8-0002jC-HR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:36:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37867 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LglFm-0006v8-6m for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LglFi-0006rH-6a for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LglFd-0006kW-TU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34252 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LglFd-0006k8-MV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:35:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:44776) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LglFX-0003b7-2f; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-157-180-39.range86-157.btcentralplus.com [86.157.180.39]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC401F675A; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F1838013; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:34:51 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <877i2zitif.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22's?= message of "Sun\, 08 Mar 2009 22\:39\:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8251 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > Hello, > > I pushed a commit [0] that aggregates all the `Makefile.am's under > `lang/' as a single one (as I recently did in `vm'). It should make > `automake', `config.status', `make', etc., faster, while also making the > tarball smaller. > > Other candidates for aggregation include `ice-9' and `examples'. Let me > know if there's any objection to pursue this wonderful endeavor. > > Thanks, > Ludo'. > > [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=3D6c59f90149993= 7fe3779ef1f543646754f843679 Good stuff. In your other message you mentioned `Recursive Make Considered Harmful', whose arguments I found persuasive when I last read it. In principle I'd be happy to go further along that road... but I don't have a detailed idea of what that would mean in practice. Neil