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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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) 
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Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:02:57 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199812050209.SAA01724@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: 'make depend' should be *mandatory*, as the alternative involves 
: duplicating dependancy information in the source and in the 
: configuration infrastructure.

If it is mandatory, then config should do it.

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.

Warner

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