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Re: Automatic dependency tracking

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
Cc: drow at false dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:32:02 -0600
Subject: Re: Automatic dependency tracking
References: <200806152203.14626.pedro@codesourcery.com> <u3anel69s.fsf@gnu.org> <20080616012617.GA8944@caradoc.them.org> <g35201$2uf$2@ger.gmane.org> <m33an413yx.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20080625182858.GA25575@caradoc.them.org> <200806281920.m5SJKAQI008684@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <m3k5g9l5ll.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

Tom> FWIW, rewriting the patch I sent to avoid GNU make is likely to
Tom> be pretty fiddly & painful.

So much for guessing.  Now I think it isn't too bad, if we do not mind
having dependencies only in the GNU make case.

Daniel> So timestamps shouldn't matter; the only new failure mode is
Daniel> that if you modify a header, the source files including it
Daniel> might not be automatically rebuilt.

I am happy to implement this, but it will be a major regression for
folks not using GNU make.

Tom

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