In article <Pine.WNT.4.10.9908011014180.-381311@lerdorf.raleigh.ibm.com> you wrote:

>[..]
>> With large source trees I usually mean source trees with 20 or more 
>> subdirs.
> 
> Apache grew beyond that ages ago.

| rse@en1:/e/apache/SRC/apache-1.3
| :> find . -name "Makefile" -print | grep -v test | wc -l
|       15

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                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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