From owner-cvs-all Sat Dec 5 15:03:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21451 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:03:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp4.portal.net.au [202.12.71.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21438; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:02:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00576; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:59:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812052259.OAA00576@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh cc: Mike Smith , Greg Lehey , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Steve Kargl , "Robert V. Baron" , 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) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:02:57 MST." <199812050302.UAA44228@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 14:59:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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. That's reasonable. > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message