On 11/11/2012 08:40 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > () Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> > () Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:11:51 +0100 > > If you want to avoid recursion, you should use a non-recursive > Makefile. GNU packages like Coreutils, Bison and Automake itself > already use such a setup in their build system, with no problem that > I know of. > > I want to avoid recursion for "make check" only. For everything else, > recursion is desirable and appreciated. Is there any way to do that? > Nope, sorry.
> If not, perhaps the documentation about foo-local targets "supplanting" > Automake-generated foo targets should mention that such supplanting has > limits, one of which is that it cannot be used to avoid recursion. > Actually, "foo-local" is expected to *extend*, not supplant, "foo"; and that is a good design IMHO: otherwise you might have to re-implement the recursion yourself every time you define a "foo-local" target in a non-leaf Makefile. Is there some wording in the manual that didn't make clear this to you? If yes, we might indeed want to fix such misleading wording > That way, at least, we can make progress to avoid this question > re-arising. > Thanks, Stefano
