On 09/02/10 17:46, Philip Guenther wrote: []
That said, this design seems needlessly inefficient. Instead of recursively invoking with the correct makefile, why not just 'include' that makefile? Every time you recursively invoke make to do something, you effectively tell make "for *this* target, forget everything you know, flush the directory cache, ignore that you've already determined that various files don't need to be built; if the question arises, do that work all over again!" It's like people are afraid their build systems will be too fast.
Can not agree more. That great paper "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" explains it in every tiny detail.
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