make - to recurse or not?

Bug #36252: [TODO] cleanup editor looked like it would be strait forward
to fix but the correct thing to do is not obvuous to me.

Fixing 'realcean' to remove editor/Makefile is easy enough.

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--- config/gen/makefiles/root.in        (revision 9132)
+++ config/gen/makefiles/root.in        (working copy)
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@
 #CONDITIONED_LINE(has_perldoc):    docs/Makefile \
     dynclasses/Makefile \
     dynoplibs/Makefile \
+    editor/Makefile \
     languages/cola/Makefile \
     languages/parrot_compiler/Makefile \
     languages/jako/Makefile \

My confusion is in the correct way of running the 'clean' target to
clean ./editor.  Most of the 'clean' targets in the root Makefile do not
invoke make recursively.  Although, in this case, editor/Makefile contains
a 'clean' target.  So what is the right thing to do here?  Should the
'clean' target be lifted from editor/Makefile into the root makefile or
is it OK to invoke make in ./editor?  Is there (or should there be) a
project wide policy about make recursion? 

I recall the arguments as to why autoconf was rejected for Parrot's
build system but is there any reason why automake and/or libtool wasn't
used?

Cheers,

-J

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• make - to recurse or not? by Joshua Hoblitt
• Re: make - to recurse or not? by Leopold Toetsch