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

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:07:07AM CEST, I got a letter
where A Large Angry SCM [off-list ref] told me that...

Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

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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