maintainer mode

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 31, 1998, Tim Potter <tpot at acsys.anu.edu.au> wrote:

> [makefile per directory stuff]

> I agree - you can't correctly express dependencies between directories
> with one makefile per directory.  Not that the dependencies are correct at
> the moment...

Now that automatic dependency tracking is working, if you enable
maintainer mode and have GNU make, they *are* correct :-)

> Check out "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" by Peter Miller at
> http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html for a good
> discussion on this.

Ah!  Here's the paper!

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Alexandre Oliva
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