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Re: [PATCH/RFC] "Recursive Make considered harmful"

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Jul 28, 2005, 07:51 UTC
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<20050728075115.GB18907@pasky.ji.cz>
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<42E8058B.7070907@gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:07:07AM CEST, I got a letter where A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> told me that...

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >While I do not have strong objections to make the build process
> >go faster, it is somewhat disturbing that the Makefile pieces
> >maintained in subdirectories need to name things they touch
> >using paths that include the subdirectory names.  I do not have
> >a better alternative to suggest, though...
> 
> For a project the size of Git, is there any real benefit to this change?
> 
> Besides pathing issues, you also have to aware that all identifiers in 
> the included makefile fragments will be global.
> 
> I don't object to the change but I see it as trading one maintenance 
> issue for another.

I'd also argue that generally, larger files are inherently harder to maintain, and having all the targets for all the subdirectories in a single file sounds nightmarish. (OTOH, by now you probably know that I'm a keep-it-as-local-as-possible junkie.)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Message 7 of 16 in “"Recursive Make considered harmful"”
  1. "Recursive Make considered harmful"Ryan Anderson, Jul 27, 2005
  2. A Large Angry SCMJul 27, 2005
  3. Kirby C. BohlingJul 27, 2005
  4. A Large Angry SCMJul 27, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2005
  6. A Large Angry SCMJul 27, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisJul 28, 2005
  8. Matthias UrlichsJul 28, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2005
  10. Matthias UrlichsJul 28, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2005
  12. A Large Angry SCMJul 28, 2005
  13. Ryan AndersonJul 29, 2005
  14. Sam RavnborgJul 29, 2005
  15. Petr BaudisJul 29, 2005
  16. Timo HirvonenJul 29, 2005

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