On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:14:51PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
This is a good argument for avoiding sub-makes.
On my list of experiments is to convert a project with non-empty
SUBDIRS to build via a single top-level make that includes
pieces from sub-directories. Improved parallelism via a complete
dependency tree is one advantage, since tools that don't need libraries
don't have to wait for an early library-build to finish before starting.
Indeed:
http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/
Rich.
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