Re: Hierarchical make: How to avoid unnecessarily going into certain directories?

[Philip Guenther]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> My questions is how to more efficiently run make in hierarchy of
> directories. Let me give the following example to demonstrate what I
> mean.

The short answer is that you should read the paper "Recursive Make
Considered Harmful".  It can be found on the web at:
        http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/

Fixing your build system to not use recursive make solves the "big
picture" problem.


Philip Guenther