Subject: Re: rebuilding stale .depend files
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/03/2003 18:36:28
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:19:02PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> > It gets rather anoying when a build fails because the old
> > .depend file references a now deleted file.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > The patch forces the .depend file to be regenerated if any of the
> > referenced files has been deleted.
> 
> Please remember that the .depend file is regenerated from the
> individual .d files these days, and the offending .d file does also
> need to be regenerated.

Yes - I force all the d.* files to be regenerated.  Looking at the
.depend files is faster because you can kill all the duplicates.
It doesn't really matter that all the d.* files are regenerated when
only one is out of date.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk