Re: non recursive makefiles

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 12 Jan 2005 13:58:41 GMT, MJ Ray <mjr@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks, MJ Ray -- your comments make a good point -- the main problem is
> > that 'make' does not provide you with a full-fledged programming language.
> 
> Recursion or not doesn't change that either way.  If you have a specific
> point about a frequently-necessary feature that requires recursion,
> please restate it.
> 
> > It's extremely limited and we're already pushing it over the edge.  The
> > first obvious objection is that if you remove recursive invocations and
> > just include everything in the top-level GNUmakefile, then everything
> > defined in any GNUmakefile included by the top-level execution would be in
> > the same namespace.
> 
> Yes, the subprojects that you use in one project have to be compatible,
> but that's already true. Recursion doesn't change that fundamentally
> either.  A higher-level makefile can easily pollute the environment
> variables in a way that breaks lower levels, can't it? Not isolation
> at all. Assuming isolation seems dangerous to me.
> 
> Recursion does allow "dirty" makefile practices to continue longer. Maybe
> sometimes recursion would be necessary, but I don't see why it seems to
> be the default for so many GNUstep packages. Is it just lack of time to
> hack an elegant solution, which is what your message suggests?
> 
> The recursion in the current gnustep-make are part of the hindrance,
> but there's a lot more undocumented hacks and magics in there, which is
> probably the biggest reason it doesn't get all the love it could.
> 
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Here is a sample of the Makefiles im using in a c project. Its modular
and non-recursive. Im figuring out how to use it with gnustep. I
copied this from the openradius site which has an article about
non-recursive makefiles.

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