Re: suddenly, "recursive make considered harmful" makes piles of sense

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Alessandro Vesely wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" wrote:
> > [...]
> > and it was just yesterday that it suddenly dawned on me how to make
> > this much simpler, and only after i started redesigning the structure
> > did it occur to me that this might be what miller's paper might be
> > talking about.
>
> It is not. Peter Miller's emphasis is about make being able to
> traverse the whole dependency tree the way it reckons, rather that
> traversing it a sub-tree at a time in the order dictated by the
> top-level makefile without ever being able to see the whole tree at
> once. E.g. using `include' rather than `$(MAKE)'.

yes, i see what you mean.  i hadn't actually finished the paper, but i
thought i could see what he was getting at.

still, i think philosophically there's some common ground -- i'm
seeing a definite advantage in taking control of the lower-level parts
of the build process and pulling them back to the top of the tree so i
can control the entire process all at the top level (even to the
extent, as i described in my next posting, of controlling build
options of lower levels at the very top).

i'll think on this some more.  thanks for the feedback.

rday