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Re: Recursive makefiles
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Andreas Enge |
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Re: Recursive makefiles |
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Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:41:26 +0200 |
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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