Re: Questions on 'make dist'

[NightStrike]

On 3/11/08, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, NightStrike wrote:
> >
> > I think I understand what you mean.  Create a recursive build tree
> > that allows starting from any point.  I would then perhaps put this
> > also in the trunk/Makefile.am:
> >
> > EXTRA_DIST=mingw-w64-headers mingw-w64-doc
> >
> > So that from the trunk directory, I could run 'make dist' and it would
> > grab everything, yes?
> >
> > I had intended to do everything with non-recursive make, but as you
> > pointed out once, non-recursive is also considered harmful.
>
> In what way is non-recursive considered harmful?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2007-11/msg00049.html

There's the top of the thread.  I think you replied in it somewhere.