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Re: Recreate depfiles when regenerating Makefiles
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: Recreate depfiles when regenerating Makefiles |
Date: |
06 Jan 2002 13:48:20 -0700 |
>>>>> "Hari" == Raja R Harinath <address@hidden> writes:
Hari> Akim once suggested adding a facility to hook commands to files
Hari> listed in AC_CONFIG_FILES.
The problem with this idea is that the information about which files
is known when automake is run, not when autoconf is run.
Hari> Anyway, till that date, it may make sense to handle this somewhat
Hari> hackily. One issue with generating the above command is that it is
Hari> safe to invoke the 'depfiles' CONFIG_COMMAND only in some cases, and
Hari> at the time 'automake' emits the Makefile regeneration code, it
Hari> doesn't know if it's safe yet. So, here goes:
I think it is always safe to run the depfiles command. The command
itself looks to see if the file it is modifying is an automake output.
So I think it is ok to simply always run the `depfiles' rule. I'm
going to check in a modified version of this patch.
Tom