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Re: Why does Makefile depend on BUILT_SOURCES?
On Mar 16, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> wrote:
>>>>>> ">" == OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
>>> 2. The target `Makefile' depends on $(BUILT_SOURCES).
>>> The solution may be to get rid of the dependency in the item 2,
>>> so my question is why Makefile must depend on BUILT_SOURCES. Is
>>> there some good reason?
> Only a historical one. In the old days we computed dependencies
> early, so we had to make sure that built sources were built before the
> dependency-generation step. Now I think we don't need this. I'm in
> favor of removing this.
In the name of backward-compatibility, I suggest that we reverted to
the original meaning, but deprecated this variable, i.e., emitted a
warning instead of simply no longer emitting the dependency. In just
a few days after the patch having been installed, it seems that
several people have faced the problem of the missing dependency :-(
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