RFC: No recursion into language subdirectories

[Marc Espie]

In article <20000619233606.D5412@wolery.cumb.org> you write:
>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...

I'll try to give it a look. I tend to know our make's quirks...

...and gnu-make bugs^H^H^H^Hnon-posix features.

In any case, this is sound, even if it breaks some builds temporarily.
As long as you don't want to introduce a way to change CFLAGS based on
target, which is definitely gnu-make only...