On Oct 02, 2002 21:59 -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > The build process remains recursive, but it changes the recursion > from > make -C subdir > to > make -f subdir/Makefile > > i.e. the current working directory remains the top dir for all times. So > gcc/ld/.. are now called from the topdir, allowing to closer resemble > a non-recursive build. Some Makefiles may need a little additional > tweaking (in particular arch/*), but generally, the changes required are > pretty small.
This is nice, because if you are doing "make -j[n]" you currently get dumped into the wrong file (or just some non-existent file in the wrong directory) on build warnings and errors (when compiling under vim/emacs) because e.g. the "make[1]: entering directory fs/ext3" message was followed by "make[1]: entering directory fs/msdos", while still compiling files in fs/ext3. Granted, this isn't a great reason to change, but it bugs me every day. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
