On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:32:42AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Using --enable-maintainer-mode I find that (as happened yesterday?) > typing 'make' causes autogen.sh and configure to be re-run. Fine. The > strangeness, however, is that the order of directory traversal is > something like: > > intl > boost > src > > Entering src leads to config.h being rebuilt, the upshot of which is > that a subsequent invocation of make will lead to the code in intl > and boost being re-built. > > At least, that's my reading of the situation and seems to be backed up > by experience too.
Btw, is there a method to use the autotools and yet get a 'flat' Makefile (i.e. just a toplevel Makefile with possible inclusion of other Makefiles but no recursive calls to make)? I've seen to projects with 'manual' Makefiles converted to the flat scheme and the usual almost-nothing-to-do build was _much_ faster afterwards (>1min -> 5s or similar). Andre'
