Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

2012-04-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 04/05/2012 08:41 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Thanks to you for being flexible and patient. I've committed the patch >> now. Soon more to follow, to remove the last make recursion (the one for >> the testsuite). >> > Sigh, this is harder than I thought. For the m

Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

2012-04-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/05/2012 08:41 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Thanks to you for being flexible and patient. I've committed the patch > now. Soon more to follow, to remove the last make recursion (the one for > the testsuite). > Sigh, this is harder than I thought. For the moment, I've pushed the work in p

Re: [PATCH] maint: remove most recursion in automake's own build system

2012-04-06 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/05/2012 06:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > [SNIP reasonable observations] > > Yes, but I haven't given up. > What about this: I conclude the transition to a non-recursive build system by creating a top-level monolithic Makefile.am, then we do whatever refactoring and de-duplication we can man