On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Simon Glass, > > In message > <BANLkTi=SJseedJ=vcwr2i+kasc8a_4eqatf69+y5skoqh2f...@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 > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de > What's the sound a name makes when it's dropped? > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
