Re: [dev] Reasonable Makefiles

From: Anselm R Garbe <garbeam_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:21:53 +0100

On 11 February 2014 14:32, Kurt Van Dijck
<dev.kurt_AT_vandijck-laurijssen.be> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:41:43AM +0100, FRIGN wrote:
>> Regarding the config.mk, I don't see the benefit, either.
>
> The major benefit I see is:
> config.mk is build/host/target specific, Makefile is not.
> Makefile goes into versioning, config.mk does not.
> Combinining those complicates life.

Exactly. I would even go a bit further than that. When designing my
stali Makefile's, I only have a single config.mk in a central place,
but many Makefiles for each dependency that include the central
config.mk
So in theory one config.mk per system should be enough.

-Anselm
Received on Tue Feb 18 2014 - 15:21:53 CET