On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 09:43 -0400, Nate Straz wrote: > On May 19 02:18, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > The makefiles are mostly done (the top-level ones that LTP touches, > > i.e. not the ballista and other subproject makefiles as LTP isn't the > > maintainers and those should be fixed upstream), but there's some sort > > of misunderstanding on my part as to how define's and variable > > scoping, lifetime, and rule evaluation are done with GNU make(1) with > > include'd Makefiles, so I've punted the ball back up-court until I can > > get some helpful answers from them, as their documentation is slightly > > confusing. > > Are you converting to a non-recursive build? I made the transition > in one of my projects and there were a few things to keep in mind. > 1. All variables are global and can get overwritten in includes. > 2. It's best to do everything before including the next makefile. > 3. Target-specific variables are the best thing since sliced bread. > > I'd be willing to look at your patch and try to resolve the confusion > you're having.
Nate, I am happy that you will be reviewing it. Garrett, I would like to have a very good document highlighting the changes and their benefits. Regards-- Subrata > > > So far my diff is ~190KB large. > > Is that all? ;) > > Nate > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Ltp-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
