On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:39 -0400, Christopher Sean Morrison wrote: > That is indeed what I'd be interested in having. Another alternative > might be to consider the sub-process makes as not being independent, > sharing the exec knowledge of their parent via some mechanism > (environment vars, process id arguments, etc). It would seem more > simple to just handle the more general independent process case, but > considering only sub-process makes and making them dependent or > otherwise state sharing would even be beneficial.
That's kind of what we do at Electric Cloud, we merge all the sub-makes into one giant make and have visibility over everything. It's highly non-trivial to implement that :-) John. -- John Graham-Cumming Home: http://www.jgc.org/ Work: http://www.electric-cloud.com/ POPFile: http://getpopfile.org/ GNU Make Standard Library: http://gmsl.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
