Hi Scott,
On May 27, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Scott Cantor wrote:
http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html
Taken in by those arguments, I've gone for the monolithic make in
large part. There are separate makefiles for obj, src, tests.
Some of those arguments don't really seem to hold that much with an
autotools-driven build. There's certainly not a significant problem
with
over-recompilation that I've ever noticed, and that would be the
worst of
the problems that paper highlights to me.
I think the benefits of a modular set of understandable makefiles far
outweigh any speed concerns (note that machines are a lot faster
now...),
but YMMV.
automake by itself leads to much simpler makefile source (though far
more complex generated makefiles, but that's the nature of the
beast). I've been very impressed by the speed with which the single
Makefile runs; I rather like it. I think if the single Makefile.am
gets too unwieldy we could break it down with automake includes of
each section from it's own directory.
Just my 2c.
-jdb
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