Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:26:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:26:48 -0400 Received: from AGrenoble-101-1-1-129.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.251.23.129]:65436 "EHLO awak") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:25:56 -0400 Subject: Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild From: Xavier Bestel To: Kai Germaschewski Cc: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 03 Oct 2002 17:31:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1033659077.2533.23.camel@bip> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 18 Le jeu 03/10/2002 ? 16:56, Kai Germaschewski a ?crit : > > 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 > > I think I heard that before, but I would argue that recursive builds if > done right are just fine from the correctness point of view. Then I would argue that recursive builds are a tradeoff between speed/maintainability and correctness. Perhaps you should re-read this paper then. Your patches go in the right direction, though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/