[Coin-discuss] in what order should makes be done

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Laszlo Ladanyi wrote:

> Also, it is a good idea to print something when invoking another makefile,
> just to know where the build process is. I'll add that, too.

A real good idea.
If you're feeling generous, you might also provide
an option so that it would fail rather than compile
>nother module as a result of a dependency.

(out of order)
> I figured out a better way to do automatic dependencies. I'll incorporate that
> into the makefiles, after that the output should be half of what it is now.

I'd probably need to send the output to a file anyway.
'Twould be nice to see the actual compile commands.
With recursion, make -n doesn't always do what one would like.
As noted, flagging the compilation of another module is a real good idea.

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