Joel Sherrill wrote:
> At this point, there have been mostly changes to:
>
>   + reduce Makefiles from ~1400 -> ~400

Are any of the maintainers familar with the paper that came out a few years ago recomending include files that pull all the make information into a single top level make file, instead of make files in each directory that are processed recursively?

The abstract is here:
http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

and the actual paper is here:
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

Any comments on whether this would be a useful goal for RTEMS, and if useful, practical?  I have heard commentary elsewhere that the philosophy propounded in the paper does not play well with autoconf.  I'm not familiar enough with autoconf to know whether that is a valid concern or not.

-- Chris Caudle

