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Re: Fwd: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation
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Edward Welbourne |
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Re: Fwd: Import statement - non-recursive make implementation |
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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:57:42 +0200 |
> One wants to have a big build to make the most use of the parallelism
> that's available but also to deal with dependencies that span
> components or directories. A hierarchy of makefiles that run each
> other recursively can't represent these dependencies properly and also
> are not terribly good at using lots of parallelism.
for a fuller discussion of this and related issues, see:
Recursive make considered harmful
http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/
The analysis is not without flaws, but the general thesis is well
supported by my experience of projects using recursive make,
Eddy.