Re: src/Makefile: why MAKEDEPS has dependencies?

[Michael Goffioul]

On 2/8/08, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> The files listed as dependencies above are all generated files.  We
> need some way to tell make to build them first, before attempting to
> create $(MAKEDEPS).  Otherwise, generating the .d files will fail.
>
> Making individual .d files depend on individual generated files would
> be another way to go, but then we need to know which files include
> these generated files, and we have to keep that information up to
> date, which is the kind of job we are trying to avoid by automatically
> generating dependency information in the first place.
>
> Do you see a better way to do this?

Not really. I can live with it and "touch *.d" when I know the change
I make are harmless.

Michael.