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Re: Conditionals and dependencies
>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com> writes:
Pavel> If there is a project some parts of which are compiled only if
Pavel> special flags to configure are given
Pavel> (e.g. --enable-test-progs), then the distribution tarball
Pavel> created by "make dist" will not contain dependecy information
Pavel> for those parts if that flag has not been used (i.e. there will
Pavel> be no dependency information for test programs if they haven't
Pavel> been compiled).
This is one of the flaws in the current dependency tracking scheme.
This flaw, as well is others, is fixed by the user-dep-gen code on the
branch.
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