Re: Recursive targets for the user

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 2) Whether to rename the above and reuse the names for the user (cleaner
> interface but backward incompatible)?  So the internal one's would be,
> say,
>
>  am_RECURSIVE_TARGETS
>  am_RECURSIVE_CLEAN_TARGETS
>  am_ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS

I am not using these in my own makefiles, but perhaps someone else 
might be.  If there is reason to believe that these variables might 
currently be used, then there is reason for caution since

> 3) Whether to document the s/$/-am/ rule for the per-directory target
> so it then also holds for user-provided recursive rules.
> (If yes, then we could share the rule code text between both.)
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Ralf

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