Re: dependencies in c++

[Raja R Harinath]

Patrick Guio <address@hidden> writes:
> On 19 Oct 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Oct 19, 2000, Patrick Guio <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I really have problems to get the dependencies stuff to work correctly. I
> > > can see that some depcomp files are installed in my subdirectories but if
> > > I touch a .h file the stuff is not rebuilt.
> > 
> > Which compiler are you using?  The new dependency-tracking code in
> > automake only enables dependency tracking by default if the compiler
> > can generate dependencies as a side-effect of compilation.  In other
> > cases, you have enable it explicitly.  Run `configure --help' for the
> > options.
> 
> I use mainly g++ but also cxx and KCC. When running 
> % configure --enable-dependency-tracking
> I get the following:
> 
> ....
> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
> ....
> checking dependency style of g++... (cached) none
> 
> Does it has something to do with my problem?
> I use autoconf/automake/libtool which I get from cvs and the last I have
> successfully compiled is less than 1 month.

Did you remove config.cache before rerunning the configure?
'config.cache' may have the results of a previous run where you didn't
--enable-dependency-tracking, or it may have had the results for a
different compiler.

- Hari
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