Let's say that I have a complex project, using many Makefiles. In some
of them, I'd like to refer to other directories of the project. So
far, I've been using various combinations on ../, ../../, etc, but
that's awfully brittle when you start moving directories around (not
to mention potentially dangerous). Is there a way, which does NOT
involve setting an environment variable, to refer to the top level
project directory? Specifically, I have a Rules.make in that
directory, which is included from the other Makefiles. If I could make
the Rules.make contain the top level directory in a variable, it would
solve most of my problems. 

Now that I think of it, another way would be to change the build
structure from recursive builds to a centralized build - all
directories are built from the top level directory. Let's say that I
do want to use recrusive build, though. What trick am I missing? 

Thanks, 
Muli. 
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org

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