Subject: Re: "Soft" make dependencies? Was: make build problem - BIND
To: None <tih@kpnQwest.no>
From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 05/28/2001 16:09:54
In message <86elta3rlq.fsf@athene.i.eunet.no>
	on 28 May 2001 08:38:57 +0200,
	Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no> wrote:
> > >dependall ===> usr.sbin/bind/lib
> > >make: don't know how to make bn.c. Stop
> > >*** Error code 2
> > 
> > 	are you using UPDATE=1?  i guess you have obsolete obj/.depend.
> > 	run "make cleandir" under usr.sbin/bind and you should be fine.
> 
> This happens to me, every now and then.  I've been thinking: would it
Me, too.

> be possible to have two sorts of dependencies in make's graph, adding
> a "soft" one that could optionally be used by default for dependencies
Simply, is there any problem ignoring .depend older than Makefile?

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>