Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 22:16:50 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Requiring make depend (was: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h bus_private.h conf.h devicestat.h module.h src/sys/kern bus_if.m device_if.m kern_con) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812042216080.89030-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199812050302.UAA44228@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199812050209.SAA01724@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : 'make depend' should be *mandatory*, as the alternative involves > : duplicating dependancy information in the source and in the > : configuration infrastructure. > > If it is mandatory, then config should do it. > > However, it is still and ugly kludge. Make depend should not be > mandatory. I'm sorry, but that is just bogus. Make depend is never > mandatory on any hunk of software that I've ever used. Been mandatory on X11 this whole time. Run automatically by imake. It is nice to > do, but I've never seen any software where make depend is the only way > to generate files. There are much better ways around this than the > ulgy kludge of making it be mandatory. > > Warner > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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