On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> > Now you're all done with the indefinite recursion hassle. For whatever
> > top-level target you're doing (fetch, install, package), you simply
> > run the list, cd'ing to each directory, in turn, and executing it's
> > non-recursing little brother (e.g. checksum, no-recurse-check-install,
> > no-recurse-package).

> ok.  So what happens is you still get recursion and duplication because if
> several of your DEPENDS share a common DEPENDS, then you duplicate some
> work there.  However, since you do it once, you win because only the top
> level package does it and you can simply do non-recursive targets in each
> of the (now flattened) DEPENDS.  I think I finally understand!

Great! I think you could save even more time by eliminating duplicates
as you go, but you have to careful how you do that, in order to
guarantee that the DEPENDS are done in order (the item on the bottom
takes precedence).

Frederick