Re: make depend (Re: Coming attractions: VPATH build; make variables issue)

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make depend (Re: Coming attractions: VPATH build; make variables issue)
Date: 2000-10-19 16:00:28
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0010191259461.974-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > > dep depend:
> > > $(CC) -MM $(CFLAGS) *.c >depend
> >
> > Why? Shouldn't CFLAGS include CPPFLAGS? These targets seem correct
> > to me as they stand ... other than assuming CC is gcc, but nevermind
> > that...
>
> Just a sanity check: Does anyone use `make depend'? Does everyone know
> about the better way to track dependencies? Does every-/anyone know why
> `make depend' is worse? I just don't want to bother fixing something
> that's dead anyway...

Ummmm ... I don't *hangs head* The only place I've ever really seen it
used extensively is the FreeBSD OS/kernel builds ...

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