On 3/11/08, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote: > > > > I think I understand what you mean. Create a recursive build tree > > that allows starting from any point. I would then perhaps put this > > also in the trunk/Makefile.am: > > > > EXTRA_DIST=mingw-w64-headers mingw-w64-doc > > > > So that from the trunk directory, I could run 'make dist' and it would > > grab everything, yes? > > > > I had intended to do everything with non-recursive make, but as you > > pointed out once, non-recursive is also considered harmful. > > In what way is non-recursive considered harmful?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-11/msg00049.html There's the top of the thread. I think you replied in it somewhere.
