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To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Two Q's: "make depend" and repairing distfile? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Mar 97 16:37:22 PST."
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 21:50:59 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) wrote:
>I know you've already decided not to do this, but just FYI: you can
>just use "ALL_TARGET=depend all" or something.

ah, but "make depend" is tricky -- "make depend all" uses the old
dependencies during the "make all", since "make depend" rewrites the
Makefile or the .depend file, and making a second target doesn't
re-read the Makefile or the .depend file (..or does it re-read the
.depend file?).  That was why I suggested a seperate invocation of
make.

  Bill

(Yes, I know I said I wasn't going to have a computer in Baltimore,
I just happened to find this powerbook with a modem . . . =)