Re: Make2 again

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:44:28PM -0400, al davis wrote:
> On Monday 30 June 2014, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> > > I like to work in small chunks.  If I am working in "apps"
> > > for  example, I want to work there as if the others didn't
> > > exist.
> > 
> > autotools supports this exact sort of fragmentation [1]. the
> > idea is the following.
> > 
> > $ ./configure; make install # installs everything, including
> > "apps" or
> > $ ./configure --disable-apps; make install # installs
> > everything, except "apps" $ mv apps ..; rm * -rf; cd ../apps
> > $ ./configure; make # work with apps, as if the others didn't
> > exist.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> 
> Go to just apps
> 
> Go to just lib
> 
> repeat 5000 times
> 
> 
> Simple recursion is the answer.

i don't see any recursive pattern here. please explain.

cheers
felix