Re: only run submake if that submake needs to be run?

[Noel Yap]

Boris Kolpackov wrote:

> Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The first one, definitely.  You need to write the rules such that they 
> > don't care about the current directory.
>
> I think David meant he wants to be able to build parts of the project which
> most likely won't work if you have one big makefile.

This is still possible.  What I do is have the directory's GNUmakefile include all GNUprivate.mk's within it and its subdirectories.  The GNUmakefile is just a hook (and all directory's GNUmakefile's look exactly the same).  It's the GNUprivate.mk's that 
define all the interesting stuff.

Noel