RFC: No recursion into language subdirectories

Zack Weinberg zack@wolery.cumb.org
Mon Jun 19 23:36:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:28:48PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Zack --
> 
>   I think what you're proposing sounds like a good idea.
> 
>   I think that if you can clean up the various issues you mention, the
> overall approach is a good one.  Anything that simplifies our
> Makefiles is a good thing.

Do you have any ideas how to deal with the warnings?  That's the only
place I can't think of anything.  I'd be prepared to either ignore
the extra warnings or insist they be cleaned up, but others may not
agree.

>   Some of the issues you discuss sound like they would only come up
> when building with non-C front-ends with a compiler other than GCC.

Pretty much, yes.

I am a bit worried about building anything at all with a Make other
than gmake.  I can't test this and the days when I knew Sun make's
bugs by heart are long gone.  VPATH is in POSIX, but still...

zw


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