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From: David.Mentre@irisa.fr (David Mentré)
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML)
Subject: Recursive Makefile (was: Re: OCaml makefile template comments)
Date: 25 Nov 1999 13:38:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wd866yqoie6.fsf@parate.irisa.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Markus Mottl's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:49:50 +0100 (MET)"

Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:

> Is there a particular reason for objecting to recursive makefiles?

<religious-war>

I think you should read:
  Recursive Make Considered Harmful (Peter Miller)
   http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

and *make your own opinion*. I've made mine.

</religious-war>


Anyway, thanks for your pointer. I'll take a look at it.

Best regards,
d.
-- 
 David.Mentre@irisa.fr -- http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/
 Opinions expressed here are only mine.




  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-25 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-24 10:12 OCaml makefile template comments David Mentré
1999-11-24 20:49 ` Markus Mottl
1999-11-25 12:38   ` David Mentré [this message]
2000-01-09  0:22 ` Porting OCaml to A Custom OS Ravi Chamarty
2000-01-10 13:14   ` Xavier Leroy

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