sharan basappa wrote:
Problem : In the process I have gone through both the options of
doing this using recursive make option or including these submakes
into main make file. The issue that I forsee in case of including
submake file is that individuals who create these submakes have to be
aware from where their make files will be called, whereas in case of
resursive make, once the make works in their directory it will always
work if top level make executes these make files. As an example, we
create a subdirectory to dump compiled code for which we use "mkdir
-p ..." Doing this by including make file will create this directory
from where the top level make file was called not in the
sub-directory is located.
I'd urge you to go with a non-recursive make since you are starting
something new. Sometime ago I wrote an article for Dr Dobbs called
'Cross-Platform Builds' (http://www.ddj.com/articles/2005/0501/) which
outlines a complete non-recursive build system.
Once you get it set up I don't think the worry about the submakes will
be realized. You just need to tell people to include the special
top-level Makefile.
John.
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