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voxcogitatio on Feb 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie ...

Yes, but large projects often need to use recursive makefiles, which are notoriously flaky at detecting what has changed (if anything).

drothlis on Feb 11, 2011 [–]

No project needs to use recursive make.

"Recursive make considered harmful": http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/

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