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Subject: Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu>
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Le jeu 03/10/2002 ? 04:59, Kai Germaschewski a ?crit :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd appreciate to get comments on the appended patch. It's mostly cleanups 
> and the like, but the interesting part is the last cset, which is actually
> fairly small:
> 
>  14 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> 
> The build process remains recursive, but it changes the recursion
> from 
> 
> 	make -C subdir
> 
> to
> 
> 	make -f subdir/Makefile

Could you do instead:

	include subdir/Makefile
?

This would avoid recursive make, which isn't really a good idea (even if
it's used widely). Here is a good agument about that:
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/teach/cs699a1999/make.html


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