[ On Mon, July 6, 1998 at 11:26:13 (-0700), Jonathan Stone wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: FYI:  more options defop'ted: DDB, network protocols, COMPAT_*
>
> In fact there's a cliche' in kernel network code which looks like
> 
>[[...]]

bummer.  I was afraid of that (which is why I didn't go looking for it! ;-)

> Besides, since non-developers can't be expected to _really_ know if
> turning on an option that was previously off adds new .o files to
> their Makefile or not, I think saying "always rerun make depend" is as
> good as we can get.

I'd still like to get as close as possible to being able to automate the
running of "make depend".  If config(8) can be taught that certain
options don't require this additional overhead and that otherwise it
should automatically do this step, then all the better.

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