Re: Shorter and less error-prone rule for automatic prerequisite generation in the GNU Make manual

[Edward Welbourne]

>>> The fix for that has been documented for years on Paul's webpage, and
>>> is most easily done now with gcc's -MP option.
>>
>> URL ?

> http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html#norule

Thanks.

> (That explains the problem and what needs to be put in the dependency
> files to solve it, and then gives an implementation that works with
> all 'makedepend' methods; gcc's -MP option came later is is just an
> optimized method for those using -MD)

Looks like I'm going to need to read that log generally to fold ideas
from it into my work on the manual - I use a quite different solution
to this problem !  (This one, however, is easier to explain than mine,
which argues in its favour.)

        Eddy.