Re: Unification of Makefiles for kernel build?

Pieter Nagel (pnagel@tbs.co.za)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 03:01:46 +0200 (SAST)


On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Alan Mimms wrote:

> I believe there is much to be gained and little
> to be lost from transforming the kernel Make infrastructure so that a
> SINGLE invocation of make is done for the entire build instead of
> invoking make for each subdirectory.

Good theoretical justification for what you propose can be found in
<A href="http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html">
Recursive Make Considered Harmful</A>

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