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Nowadays there is a "non-recursive make considered harmful" paper.

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Of course there is!  Let's complete the circle by linking to it,
because it links to this project (among many others).
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@ -783,8 +783,8 @@ partial picture of what's going on; moreover, each one has to
stat() a lot of the same files over again, leading to slowness. That's
the thesis of the "considered harmful" paper.
Nobody has written a paper about it, but *non-recursive*
make should also be considered harmful! The problem is Makefiles aren't
It turns out that [non-recursive make should also be considered harmful](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hadrian.pdf).
The problem is Makefiles aren't
very "hygienic" or "modular"; if you're not running make recursively, then
your one copy of make has to know *everything* about *everything* in your
entire project. Every variable in make is global, so every variable defined