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[Johan Jansson <jjan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:36:37PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:55:18AM +0200, Johan Jansson wrote:

...

> > Ok, too bad. I think autotools performs sufficiently well, so there's
> > no crisis. If we decide to stick with autotools for the short term, I
> > think there are some improvements we can do to the build system. I
> > would like to look into a flat Makefile to simplify dependency
> > construction for example. But it's not top priority, I guess we'll get
> > there eventually.
> 
> What do you mean by flat Makefile?
> 
> /Anders

A non-recursive Makefile. See for example:

http://www.pcug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

That article does not discuss autotools, here is some discussion
related to that:

http://www.mail-archive.com/automake@xxxxxxx/msg11521.html

  Johan