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Re: Disabling dependency tracking - how?
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- To: miki dot shapiro at eAladdin dot com
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:54:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: Disabling dependency tracking - how?
- References: <OF4C6BCE59.59A3C295-ONC2256C6D.0042E569@aladdin.co.il>
>>> "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