On Oct 02, 2002 21:59 -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> The build process remains recursive, but it changes the recursion
> from
> make -C subdir
> to
> make -f subdir/Makefile
>
> i.e. the current working directory remains the top dir for all times. So
> gcc/ld/.. are now called from the topdir, allowing to closer resemble
> a non-recursive build. Some Makefiles may need a little additional
> tweaking (in particular arch/*), but generally, the changes required are
> pretty small.
This is nice, because if you are doing "make -j[n]" you currently get
dumped into the wrong file (or just some non-existent file in the wrong
directory) on build warnings and errors (when compiling under vim/emacs)
because e.g. the "make[1]: entering directory fs/ext3" message was
followed by "make[1]: entering directory fs/msdos", while still
compiling files in fs/ext3.
Granted, this isn't a great reason to change, but it bugs me every
day.
Cheers, Andreas
-- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/- 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/
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