On Sep 28, 2009, at 12:04, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@xxxxxxx> wrote:
There is an article called "recursive make considered harmful". According to it, you should have just one Makefile.am in top level with all the rules (all libs etc). By this, make can show its strengths best. Often, a Makefile.am "per directory" seems to be used, but for a new project today this should be avoided. It just slows things down and leads to unneeded compiler calls. I'm sorry, but where on earth did you get this terrible information? A Makefile.am per directory is precisly what should be used, it doesn't incure any extra compiler calls. It also makes it easy to build seperate parts of the tree.
There is an existing paper about this argument. This is exactly addressed in the automake documentation, and automake supports that single-directory method if you so choose. I can find the reference for you in a few hours.
I do note that this is the autoconf list, not automake. I don't see a crosspost.
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