http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/06/removing-vpath-uses-from-makefiles/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:54:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/06/removing-vpath-uses-from-makefiles/comment-page-1/#comment-97455 David Carlton Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:59:04 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/?p=775#comment-97455 Thanks, yeah, I'm a big fan of those. We haven't eliminated all recursive make invocations from our work Makefiles, but I eliminated some of them a few years ago, and it was wonderful how things magically got more parallelizable and more correct without getting any more complicated... Thanks, yeah, I’m a big fan of those. We haven’t eliminated all recursive make invocations from our work Makefiles, but I eliminated some of them a few years ago, and it was wonderful how things magically got more parallelizable and more correct without getting any more complicated…

]]> http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2008/06/removing-vpath-uses-from-makefiles/comment-page-1/#comment-97441 John Cowan Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:23:43 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/?p=775#comment-97441 If you haven't read <a href="http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf" rel="nofollow">Recursive Make Considered Harmful</a> and <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/nonrecursive-make.html" rel="nofollow">Implementing Nonrecursive Make</a> (in that order) yet, you really ought to. They make the difference between Makefiles that suck and that suck less. If you haven’t read Recursive Make Considered Harmful and Implementing Nonrecursive Make (in that order) yet, you really ought to. They make the difference between Makefiles that suck and that suck less.

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