Re: multi-architecture builds and recursive makes

[bertold]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>  i'm reading paul smith's essay on multi-architecture builds
> (http://make.paulandlesley.org/multi-arch.html), but it seems that that 
> approach wouldn't work if one had a recursive make structure, would it?
>
>  that is, say one had the source directory SRCDIR and the directory in
> which to build the objects OBJDIR, the *general* form of the make
> invocation would be (simplified drastically for brevity):
>
>  $ cd ${SRCDIR}
>  $ make -C ${OBJDIR} -f ${SRCDIR}/Makefile <target>
>
> that would work fine for simple targets, but if the Makefile had a
> recursive structure that tried to "make" into SRCDIR's subdirectories, it
> seems this would fail as the make (running effectively in OBJDIR) would
> try to locate the subdirectories in OBJDIR, not SRCDIR, would fail to find
> them, and abort, no?  (a quick test seems to verify this behaviour.)
>
>  i have a couple followup questions about multi-arch builds, but i'll 
> hold off until i clarify this point.  thanks.
>
> rday
>
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So, you should provide right path to sources. Actually
i did differently. Go through source dirs and keeping
path to object dir.
This way if you have all objects in one place.