Subject: Re: Can't "make depend" the kernel
To: None <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no>
List: current-users
Date: 11/15/2000 09:00:33
Thilo Manske <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> writes:

> > depending the compat library objects
> > make: don't know how to make ../../../../vm/vm_inherit.h. Stop
> One of your .depend files still has references to ancient headers
> wich have been removed some weeks ago.

Wouldn't it be cool, if dependencies could be classified as "soft" and
"hard", and 'make' could be configured e.g. to stop when a dependency
in a Makefile can't be resolved, but issue a warning if it was seen in
a .depend file?

-tih
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