Re: Please review: Brain surgery on the build system, first stage

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
> John Mandereau writes:
>
>> That said, there is a design I don't like, which BTW is not specific at
>> all to StepMake: tying build order and make recursion with directory
>> layout causes trouble in rules with prerequisites that are built in
>> other directories. IMHO it would be much better to use make recursion
>> for building stages (all, test, doc-1, doc-2...) instead of directories,
>> with a toplevel GNUmakefile including submakefiles from subdirectories.
>> I don't think it would be very easy to do this with GNU Make

I believe the android build works like this, so it should be doable.

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