Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

From: Xavier Bestel (xavier.bestel@free.fr)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 10:31:17 EST


Le jeu 03/10/2002 à 16:56, Kai Germaschewski a écrit :

> > 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.

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