Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 22:46:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Requiring make depend Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812042239250.89030-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199812050324.UAA45930@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812042216080.89030-100000@picnic.mat.net> Chuck Robey writes:
> : Been mandatory on X11 this whole time. Run automatically by imake.
>
> I think that you might be confusing it with make includes, which has
> been mandatory.
No, but I was confusing it with xmkmf, which invokes imake, and does do
the make depend automatically, with the -a option:
DESCRIPTION
The xmkmf command is the normal way to create a Makefile
from an Imakefile shipped with third-party software.
When invoked with no arguments in a directory containing
an Imakefile, the imake program is run with arguments
appropriate for your system (configured into xmkmf when X
was built) and generates a Makefile.
When invoked with the -a option, xmkmf builds the Makefile
in the current directory, and then automatically executes
``make Makefiles'' (in case there are subdirectories),
``make includes'', and ``make depend'' for you. This is
the normal way to configure software that is outside the X
Consortium build tree.
The idea is, most correctly built x11 stuff expects to have the make
depend done. From experience, more than 50% of big things will fail if
you don't do the make depend. It's always been a standard X11 mantra:
xmkmf
make Makefile
make Makefiles
make depend
make
and then watch something else break it.
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