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Recursive makefiles
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Recursive makefiles |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:09:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:
> commit 575ed8d5b3184493c8fe233b4d5128c495b7c652
> Author: Andreas Enge <address@hidden>
> 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’.
- Recursive makefiles,
Ludovic Courtès <=