Re: build system rules & algorithms

[Stephan Beal]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Mike Shal<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6/10/09, Stephan Beal <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  anything will always outperform specialized solutions for particular

correction: "will always be outperformed by..."

> The issue I always run into these setups is I never know which subdirs
> I need to cd to in order to run make (and still get a correctly
> running program). Although I may be able to do that for projects I
> write, I'm lost if I try to do that with another project, like if I
> want to test a patch against wine or firefox. If you have a good
> solution for that, I'd like to know!

Unfortunately, no - it takes careful thought when laying out the tree,
in my experience. :(

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