Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Akim" == akim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Akim> I wonder why we have a hard coded list list this in subdirs.am:
> Akim> [ ... -recursive targets ... ]
>
> Historical reasons only, ie, I never thought of it.
>
> Akim> Not only to I find this more pleasant, but most importantly it's
> Akim> a win for Automake (we can have more modular *.am files which
> Akim> register their own recursive targets), and it's a win for users
> Akim> who can += on RECURSIVE_TARGETS.
>
> In the not-too-distant past, you couldn't `+=' an internally-defined
> variable.
I feel the need to point out that the -recursive portions of the targets
in the RECURSIVE_TARGETS macro seem somewhat redundant since users would
be required to end any new targets they wished to add to
RECURSIVE_TARGETS with the same string due to the way recursive targets
are defined.
i.e. a user should be able to add
RECURSIVE_TARGETS += mytarget
thus implicitly defining mytarget & mytarget-recursive, and mytarget
would call mytarget-local, mytarget-recursive, & mytarget-hook as
appropriate.
Of course I don't have my head nearly deep enough in those implementation
details at the moment to even start detailing how I would code the above.
Derek
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