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 -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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