On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:31 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote: > Here is the good news: Regardless of the non/recursive decision, most > of > the SourceLayout changes are valid and useful. They properly organize > the sources files. If we decide that non-recursive make is the goal, > it > would be much easier to convert to that style now (or later).
Great. > Do all modern environments have good support for large non-recursive > projects? Can somebody provide an example of a large project using > non-recursive Makefiles? Or is that just a nice idea that never really > took flight and is not being optimized/designed for? Without going out and doing an audit of other projects, I can't state specifics about where nonrecursive make is/isn't used. The autotools toolchain, which we are using, has tolerably good support for non-recursive make, and it is improving over time. I suspect that most large projects don't use non-recursive make, simply because they have generally been created some time ago before toolchain support existed at all. I do know that CMake, SCons, WAFfle, bake, cook, and other such toolchains all use a global-dependency-graph approach (which is the same as non-recursive make). -Rob
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