From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Recursive makefiles
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:09:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc2p7ca3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1VElgT-0006f7-UH@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:45:42 +0000")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
> commit 575ed8d5b3184493c8fe233b4d5128c495b7c652
> Author: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
> Date: Wed Aug 28 21:44:14 2013 +0200
>
> doc: Create own Makefile.am in subdirectory.
>
> * doc/Makefile.am: New file.
> * Makefile.am: Reference subdirectory doc.
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/>.)
However, the snippet about the ‘doc’ directory could be moved in, say,
doc.am, and have doc.am included from Makefile.am.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2013-08-28 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-08-28 21:41 ` Recursive makefiles Andreas Enge
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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