Re: Towards non-recursive makefiles

[Jeff Garzik]

Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
> Anyone who hasn't seen it might want to look at the
> "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" Usenix paper:
> 
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

I've long believed that one big-ass Makefile was needed for the kernel
(remember, it can include sub-makefiles instead of doing a recursive
make)...  and in fact, automake's maintainer Tom Tromey has mentioned
that he wants to move automake in that direction too.

	Jeff

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