Re: Aggregated makefiles

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> I pushed a commit [0] that aggregates all the `Makefile.am's under
> `lang/' as a single one (as I recently did in `vm').  It should make
> `automake', `config.status', `make', etc., faster, while also making the
> tarball smaller.
>
> Other candidates for aggregation include `ice-9' and `examples'.  Let me
> know if there's any objection to pursue this wonderful endeavor.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo'.
>
> [0] 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=6c59f901499937fe3779ef1f543646754f843679

Good stuff.  In your other message you mentioned `Recursive Make
Considered Harmful', whose arguments I found persuasive when I last
read it.  In principle I'd be happy to go further along that
road... but I don't have a detailed idea of what that would mean in
practice.

     Neil