Re: Using Emacs with Autotools projects : separate source and binaries directories

Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:58:27 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Organization	Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

* [email protected] wrote on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:43:20AM CET:
> What I was trying to say is that VPATH builds seems to be less
> efficient.

I don't think that should be very noticeable.

> In the case of VPATH build, if instead of 'make' in the file
> directory, if you are running 'make' in the top-level of your binary
> directory, it will be less efficient.  I should be faster to run
> 'make' in the associated 'build' directory of the current file.

Ah.  Maybe you should consider not having one Makefile per directory.
Automake supports nonrecursive setups, too.  Or partly recursive.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf