Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 14:59:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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: <199812052259.OAA00576@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:02:57 MST." <199812050302.UAA44228@harmony.village.org>
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> 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. That's reasonable. > 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. 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. Again, 'make depend' doesn't generate the files, it generates the *dependancies* that tell make that the files need to be generated. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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