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To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML)
Subject: Recursive Makefile (was: Re: OCaml makefile template comments)
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From: David.Mentre@irisa.fr (David =?iso-8859-1?q?Mentré?=)
Date: 25 Nov 1999 13:38:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: Markus Mottl's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:49:50 +0100 (MET)"
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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.
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