Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 02:37:23 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dependencies...how do they work? Message-ID: <764.831087443@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 1996 21:05:32 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.93.960502210132.13930A-100000@freebsd.ki.net>
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"Marc G. Fournier" wrote in message ID <Pine.NEB.3.93.960502210132.13930A-100000@freebsd.ki.net>: > I'm just curious how exactly the .depend file is created... > what does it base its information on? If you run `top' during a mkdep, you'll see it runs the relevant C files through the CPP to get that information. > I just tried to rebuild libutil, and got an error of: > 'Can't make pte.h' > Or similar to that... > pte.h was just removed, but even doing a 'make clean; make depend' > on the directory comes up with that error, and the .depend file has it in > it. > I checked setproctitle.c (which is what .depend seems to think > needs pte.h), and there is no include there. Nor can I find it in > any of the include files on the system. I ended up just editting .depend > and removing that one entry to get past it...but I seem to recall someone > mentioning that editting the .depend file is "!A Good Thing(tm)" Did you have an `obj' subdir/symlink? This make be a bogon somewhere :-( Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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