Hello Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 06:37:14PM CET: > My non-recursive project is using Automake 1.10.1, Autoconf 2.61, CVS > HEAD libtool, and GNU make 3.81. I am annoyed to see that it is still > recursive, and even more recursive if maintainer mode is enabled: [...] > With a non-recursive build I would expect that make would simply > report that there is nothing to do when there is nothing to do, or > simply return. I thought that it used to do that.
Not that I can remember. > This is really embarrasing for my project. No, it isn't. > I am at wits end. I am about to cry. Can I get you a cookie to stop you from being about to cry? > Is there a way to avoid this dire situation? You can probably hack automake/lib/am/subdirs.am to emit a different $(RECURSIVE_TARGETS) rule; be sure to check that all instances matching grep recursive automake/automake.in automake/lib/am/*.am still work as expected. Cheers, Ralf
