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Re: Hierarchical make: How to avoid unnecessarily going into certain dir
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Philip Guenther |
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Re: Hierarchical make: How to avoid unnecessarily going into certain directories? |
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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:05:09 -0700 |
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> My questions is how to more efficiently run make in hierarchy of
> directories. Let me give the following example to demonstrate what I
> mean.
The short answer is that you should read the paper "Recursive Make
Considered Harmful". It can be found on the web at:
http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/
Fixing your build system to not use recursive make solves the "big
picture" problem.
Philip Guenther
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