Re: Make, make, make. . .

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Philipp Gühring wrote:

>>> Do a web search for "Recursive make considered harmful"
>>
>>...In the interests of editorial balance, it should be said that
>>ssome people regard that document as almost criminally *wrong*.
>
>I read the document, and it sounded logical to me. Tell me more about
>why it should be wrong.

Its author bases the article on an example of a badly structured directory
hierarchy. It's true that in such a case (recursive) make has severe
problems, but once the source files are organized properly these problems
vanish and the point becomes moot.


	Christian
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