Re: How to automatically update a automatically generated dependence file?

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Philip Guenther <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> ...
>>> I'm not sure how to adapt it to my problem, as my problem arises when
>>> the dependence file is modified externally. Would you please let me
>>> know how to change my Makefile?
>>
>> You're worried about people putting incorrect data into dependency
>> files?  What do you do when they put incorrect code into the C++
>> source files, or edit the Makefile to be bogus?
>
> The real problem is that I may change the filename of print.hpp (in a
> refactoring process) after the dependency file was written. To

Actually, I mean I may change the filename that are included by files
included by print.hpp.

> demonstrate an equivalent problem, I modify the dependency file as it
> is easier than changing the code. Does the technique on
> http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html handle this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Peng
>