Re: non-recursive automake advice?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, tom fogal wrote:
> Your arguments are convincing, I will switch my setup away from
> convenience archives.

As you proceed with your non-recursive build, be sure to keep in mind 
that you are leaving the common path so you can expect to encounter 
more bugs or things that need to be worked around.  There are also 
asthetic differences such as that your object files may be given funny 
names.  I think it is worthwhile in the long term though.

There is something very satisfying to do 'make' on a large project and 
see:

% time gmake
gmake  all-am
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/bfriesen/build/GraphicsMagick-16-static'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/bfriesen/build/GraphicsMagick-16-static'
gmake  0.78s user 0.10s system 88% cpu 0.990 total
%

Note that the messages appear to indicate that Automake does recurse 
once regardless.

Bob
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