Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:14:31 -0400 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/perl Makefile Makefile.inc src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/utils Makefile.inc Message-ID: <200109221414.f8MEEWi46094@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:53:37 BST." <200109211353.f8LDrbV02285@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> wrote:
> > > > Err, ``make depend all'' is not guaranteed to work at all.
> > >
> > > It should work, but it won't use the dependencies created in the .depend
> > > file. For any 'from-scratch' builds, this should be fine.
> > >
> > Yes, but that's the exact problem that was tried to be solved AFAICS.
> > Otherwise, why Mark wrote ``make depend all'' and not ``make all''?
> > Of course, ``make obj && make all'' should work. Only in rare cases
> > ``make depend'' is required for fresh builds, when the depend target
> > is abused (or {before|after}depend).
>
> You guys are reading waaaaay too much into my words.
>
> "make depend all" is what I often type - I also type "make depend && make all".
>
> Both are tested, both work. "make all" also works.
>
> Pink. Definitely pink.
No, make depend all doesn't really work as you might expect. The dependency
information isn't actually used once it's calculated then.
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Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! /
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