[CRIU] [PATCH 0/2] Makefiles: fix deps checking

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 01/09/2017 12:21 AM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> 2017-01-08 2:52 GMT+03:00 Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org>:
>> A big problem with using sub-makes is the dependency information
>> is only available to a sub-make, so if we want deps to be checked
>> when we run make (a natural thing to do, isn't it?), we need to
>> call all the sub-makes unconditionally.
>>
>> I am not sure if a better alternative exist.
> There is alternative, but it's not an easy-fix: Non-recursive-make.

I surely thought about this. The problem in our case is we want
(or so I think) the sub-packages like libsoccr or compel to be
autonomous, so we want their Makefiles to be self-sufficient.
In fact this is not the case at the moment, but as I understand
this is Cyrill's intention.

> Started with article "Recursive Make Considered Harmful",
> which describes all these problems:
> http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov at virtuozzo.com>
>
>> PS there is the same problem with lib/c/* but I was not able to fix it
>> in such a simple way as these two cases, so "leaving it as an exercise
>> to the reader".
>>
>> Kir Kolyshkin (2):
>>    criu/Makefile: fix rebuilding criu/pie/pie.lib.a
>>    criu/Makefile: fix criu/arch/* rebuild
>>
>>   criu/Makefile | 6 ++++--
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>