Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 04/05/2012 06:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> [SNIP reasonable observations] >> >> Yes, but I haven't given up. >> > What about this: I conclude the transition to a non-recursive build > system by creating a top-level monolithic Makefile.am, then we do whatever > refactoring and de-duplication we can manage to, and finally we split out > the monolith into sub-directory 'local.mk' files (we might do this one > sub-directory at the time). Notice that, despite the appearences, this > won't introduce much extra churn, because the existing 'Makefile.am's > would basically be re-written anyway in the transition to a non-recursive > setup.
That sounds fine. Thanks for keeping an open mind.
