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LCA: Disintermediating distributions

LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Posted Feb 7, 2008 11:52 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: LCA: Disintermediating distributions by stevenj
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

> Try using raw 'make' in a project with subdirectories sometime. 

Then you have already failed. Why on earth would anyone want to call make recursively? The
only reason I have ever heard is "because I don't understand what I'm doing, and I cargo
culted my build system from someone else, who also did not understand what he was doing".


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