David Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've often wished for the equivalent of the Ant "-find" feature to be > implemented in make. This would simply ask make to work its way up toward > the root looking for a makefile in each intervening directory and stopping > when one is found. Basically a recursive version of the current > makefile-finding algorithm. It would allow you to run make in any subdir of > a large project tree with only a single Makefile at its base (or e.g. a > Makefile for each of the 'cmd', 'lib', and 'doc' subtrees), thus removing > one of the ergonomic problems with single-makefile (non-recursive) build > models.
This won't scale for builds in split directories (i.e. sources in one tree, generated code in the other). -C and -f work quite well for me, e.g. make -C /tmp/hello-i686-pc-linux-gnu -f ~/hello/makefile -boris
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