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Re: Disabling dependency tracking - how?


>>> "miki" == miki shapiro <miki.shapiro@eAladdin.com> writes:

[...]

 miki> Also, I looked inside this autogenerated rule (in
 miki> .deps/cppfilename.Po) , for some reason automake sticks
 miki> all 40 header files in the rule. Why?

So that cppfilename.o gets recompiled if any of these files change.
That's the purpose of dependency tracking.

 miki> AFAIK, it's not mandatory to mention them during compilation

Huh?  We don't do this.   dependencies != sources

[...]

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz




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