Re: -recursive

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

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 Akim> Actually, I don't really understand the implementation in
 Akim> multilib, do you?

 Akim> if %?SUBDIRS%
 Akim> all-recursive: all-multi
 Akim> install-recursive: install-multi
 Akim> else !%?SUBDIRS%
 Akim> all-am: all-multi
 Akim> install-am: install-multi
 Akim> endif !%?SUBDIRS%

 Akim> (and similarly for other targets).  

The duplicate definition of *clean-recursive looks like a bug.

 Akim> Why not just bind it to -am?  It's coming from

 Akim> 2001-05-27  Tom Tromey  <address@hidden>

 Akim> * automake.in (handle_multilib): Only add multilib support
 Akim> code at
 Akim> top level.
 Akim> * lib/am/multilib.am: Handle invocation of *-multi
 Akim> targets
 Akim> differently for SUBDIRS and non-SUBDIRS Makefiles.
 Akim> * m4/multi.m4 (AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB): Removed erroneous
 Akim> comment.
 Akim> Only add multilib code when the Makefile in question is
 Akim> actually
 Akim> rebuilt.

 Akim> But there is not much information in there :(

Oh, if there is no test case it probably isn't important... <wink>

Interestingly only the *-recursive rules existed before that
change.  So adding -am rules for the non-SUBDIRS case seems
correct.  However I agree adding *-multi only as dependencies of
*-am rules sounds more correct, I see no point in using
*-recursive rules for something which is not recursive.  (I'm
not familiar with the multilib stuff though.)

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz