[U-Boot] Nested Makefiles

Simon Glass
2011-06-20T23:52:34Z

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> 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.

Hi Wolfgang,

OK sorry. It was the nested/recursive makefiles with which I started
this thread. I think it might have been misunderstood as a question
about terse make but it wasn't.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
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