Google for "Recursive Make Considered Harmful pdf by Peter Miller". You will learn a lot, whether you agree or not with the "harmful" assessment.
Martin On Sat., Nov. 2, 2019, 12:25 Galen Seitz, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/1/19 8:49 PM, David wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 02:08, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> is there a list > >> somewhere of such idioms and style recommendations? > > > > There's this, if you haven't seen it: > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Conventions.html#Makefile-Conventions > > > > There's also some books on Gnu Make: > > > https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Projects-GNU-Make-Handbooks/dp/0596006101 > > https://www.allitebooks.in/gnu-make-book/ > > > > There are more make resources listed at Paul's make site. > <http://make.mad-scientist.net/#resources> > > In particular, I found his papers very useful. I recommend reading > through all of them if you have the time. > <http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/> > > > galen > -- > Galen Seitz > [email protected] > >
