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Re: "make dist" calls "automake" ??
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: "make dist" calls "automake" ?? |
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20 Jul 2001 11:03:48 -0600 |
>>>>> "Guido" == Guido Draheim <address@hidden> writes:
Guido> Well, Tom, isn't it that most make-dependencies are dependent
Guido> on the chosen `configure` options? Some dependencies are
Guido> invariant, but they are generated anway if `automake` is called
Guido> without include-deps, isn't it?
Yes, this is one reason that we changed it.
Guido> The whole include-deps feels pretty pointless and doomed to
Guido> fail
I don't agree that it was pointless. At the time when this code was
written, it was cutting-edge automatic dependency tracking technology.
This problem was actually not immediately obvious, and doing things
this way was a useful experiment. For instance it taught us that
doing dependency tracking as a side effect of compilation is in fact
the best (known) approach.
As "doomed to fail", I disagree with that too. Parts of it "failed"
in the sense that they proved to cause a fair number of problems.
These parts we changed.
Tom