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Date:      Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:44:31 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Requiring make depend (was: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h bus_private.h conf.h devicestat.h module.h src/sys/kern bus_if.m device_if.m kern_con) 
Message-ID:  <199812061944.VAA54697@greenpeace.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sat, 05 Dec 1998 14:59:47 PST." <199812052259.OAA00576@dingo.cdrom.com> 
References:  <199812052259.OAA00576@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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Mike Smith wrote:
> > However, it is still and ugly kludge.  Make depend should not be
> > mandatory.  I'm sorry, but that is just bogus.  Make depend is never
> > mandatory on any hunk of software that I've ever used.  It is nice to
> > do, but I've never seen any software where make depend is the only way
> > to generate files.  There are much better ways around this than the
> > ulgy kludge of making it be mandatory.
> 
> Again, 'make depend' doesn't generate the files, it generates the 
> *dependancies* that tell make that the files need to be generated.

...so can't a cookie file be bunged into the equation;

all: .make_depend_first_tosspot
	$(MAKE) depend
	touch .make_depend_first_tosspot

??

M
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