Re: [bug #61226] A regression prevents generation of missing included dependency files.

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 17:51 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov via Bug reports and
discussion for GNU make wrote:
> On Monday, October 25, 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <
> alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why do I do this?  Because, if you remove a file from your tree, an
> > old .d file will require that file and make your build fail,
> > requiring you to clean before making again.
> 
> This has been solved long ago. Check the awesome advanced dependency
> generation article by Paul. 

FYI:

  http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/advanced-auto-dependency-generation/

The issue you raise (as well as others) is discussed, hopefully
clearly, in this article [*].


[*] 
http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/advanced-auto-dependency-generation/#depdelete