Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH] [ng] built sources: avoid unconditional recursive make invocation

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Stefano,

Le 5 juil. 2012 à 17:24, Stefano Lattarini a écrit :

>>> $ cat Makefile
>>> all:
>>>     echo all
>>> 
>>> Makefile: foo bar baz
>>> 
> As I said in my previous mail, I've already tried something like this, but
> sadly it kept broking the 'remake-gnulib-add-acsubst.sh' test case, which
> exercises a scenario that Gnulib Makefiles need to support.

Sorry, I was not focused enough.

> So no good,
> unless we manage to find another idiom that Gnulib can use to have its use
> case still working.  Fell free to give it a shot, as I'd be happy to
> apply the above simplification.

Chances are little that, if you tried, I would succeed.

> For the moment, I think we should just apply my patch; we can implement
> incremental improvements on it later (if we manage to find them ;-)

Definitely.