Re: bsd.lib.mk question

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:25:05AM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
 > >...and that's a bad idea, because it leaves you in a mysterious broken
 > >state when "make depend" croaks and leaves you an empty .depend file.
 > 
 > Sorry, its been 10+ years since we did 'make depend',
 > everytime we build .depend gets updated - if necessary.

What's this "we"?

bsd.own.mk:618:depend:          realdepend subdir-depend
bsd.dep.mk:5:realdepend:        beforedepend .depend afterdepend
bsd.dep.mk:32:.depend: ${__DPSRCS.d}

etc.

And, btw, the rules we have do not always update depends when they
need to. But that's a different issue.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost