Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

[Kai Germaschewski]

On 3 Oct 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Could you do instead:
> 
> 	include subdir/Makefile
> ?

It's not quite that easy, unfortunately ;(

> This would avoid recursive make, which isn't really a good idea (even if
> it's used widely). Here is a good agument about that:
> http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/teach/cs699a1999/make.html

I think I heard that before, but I would argue that recursive builds if 
done right are just fine from the correctness point of view.

--Kai