Re: make: ignore stale .depend

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%crufty.net@localhost>]

>I have to say I don't like all this magic, since it re-running make
>will do the same dance over and over again without fixing the dependency.

Only if you use manual 'make depend' - which I haven't done for about 10
years.  So in my build the problem fixes itself automatically, once it
gets past this issue.

With this patch, the warning is sufficiently verbose as to call
attention to the need to re-run 'make depend' if that's the model you
are using.

>I think I prefer if make just exits on stale dependencies. I would go
>as far as having an option to touch the *.d files as necessary to make
>them stale :-)

That wouldn't make my 1000+ developers very happy.