From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recursive makefiles
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:41:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130828214126.GA26655@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc2p7ca3.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:09:40PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Please don’t do that: the build system purposefully avoids recursive
> makefiles, to improve parallelism etc. (see
> <http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/>.)
I did it for two reasons:
- It allows to type "make ps" and "make pdf" in the main directory,
instead of "cd doc; make pdf; cd ..".
- It avoids clutter in the main directory (not checked this time, but I
think there were a few files guix.* then).
Andreas
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2013-08-28 21:09 ` Recursive makefiles Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-28 21:41 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2013-08-28 22:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-28 22:25 ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-29 20:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-29 20:27 ` Andreas Enge
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