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Re: "unparallelizing" a recursive make
From: |
Darin Johnson |
Subject: |
Re: "unparallelizing" a recursive make |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:18:59 -0400 (EDT) |
> Well, if you ask me, the right solution is to rewrite
> your project's build system to get
> rid of the recursive sub-makes. As we all know,
> "recursive make is considered harmful".
Which may be true. But on cygwin and a fast computer, there is
a noticeable start-up delay on one sub-directory where I used the
non-recursive method. If the entire project was done this way I
could imagine a startup delay of a minute. Maybe that's not so
important, but I think it's nicer to the users to not have the delay.
(The sub-projects are pretty much independent of each other as well,
and everything is layed out to be easy to convert to non-recursive
approach if I needed to)