[U-Boot] Nested Makefiles

Wolfgang Denk
2011-06-20T22:17:27Z

Dear Simon Glass,

In message <BANLkTi=SJseedJ=vcWr2i+kAsc8A_4EqATf69+y5SKoQH2fomg@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> >> So yes, patches are welcome, but these should go directly to the make
> >> mailing lists / patch system, see
> >> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=make
> >
> > not to kick sand just for fun, but this is an example of you getting
> > final veto power. ?this has been requested by many people, and ive
> > seen very few people against it (off the top of my head, i can only
> > recall you, but i havent looked at previous threads to be sure).
> >
> > i'm not saying your logic is without merit, just that in all
> > practicality, i dont think it's going to happen the way you desire.
>
> Great to see the discussion here. My feeling is that the right
> approach is for the subdir Makefiles to be #included so that make can
> operate the way it was originally intended (full tree dependency). We
> don't have the kind of memory limitations that once made the size of
> its dependency table worth worrying about.

Be casreful not to mix topics. Mike's message to which you reply here
has actually asolutely nothing to do with nested or recursive
Makefiles or such. He is referring to the other topic (terse make
output) instead.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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