On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 17:49, Tom Tromey wrote: > The problem is, automake generates an explicit rule for each > compilation. Our resulting Makefile.in is nearly 9 megabytes. This > is really much too large -- compare to 200K with automake 1.4.
For subdir-compilation/non-recursive Makefiles automake generates *2* explicit rules (cygwin and n/cygwin) for each compilation. Folding these two rules into one, alone would reduce the size of Makefiles using many files by almost factor 2. Ralf
