>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Boulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> You would lose the ability to build only sources in a
Richard> directory and its subdirs while ignoring files they depended
Richard> upon elsewhere in the tree which are out of date, but I'd
Richard> consider that a feature rather than a problem. You shouldn't
Richard> be wanting to build against out-of-date files.
Tom> ... and with automake this only helps with things like linking against
Tom> a library anyway, since automake does full dependency tracking for
Tom> compilations.
No, not only libraries. Dependency tracking with recursive make
will not lead to the update of any target which is in a separate
directory. For instance I have source files which depend on
generated headers in another directory; it usually happens that
I'm building the sources with out-of-date headers by error.
(yeah, sounds like a reason to try Automake with a single
toplevel Makefile.am).
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz
