Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 04/05/2012 06:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> [SNIP reasonable observations]
>
> Yes, but I haven't given up.
> 
What about this: I conclude the transition to a non-recursive build
system by creating a top-level monolithic Makefile.am, then we do whatever
refactoring and de-duplication we can manage to, and finally we split out
the monolith into sub-directory 'local.mk' files (we might do this one
sub-directory at the time).  Notice that, despite the appearences, this
won't introduce much extra churn, because the existing 'Makefile.am's
would basically be re-written anyway in the transition to a non-recursive
setup.

WDYT?

Regards,
  Stefano