On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:50:19AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: [ changing the title to talk only about makedepend ] > > Run "make check" and the builds for 17 with and without makedepend in > the system, and noticed no difference but in the configure part. > > Searched other distributions, and have some difficult finding it. IIRC, > only found in one page that was stating something like "this page is too > old..." > > I may be wrong, but makedepend is a strong candidate for archive. If no > objections or if I have not committed mistakes in this analysis, this is > simple enough for me to do. >
In my most-recent builds (October), makedepend still shows up as an optional dependency for attr. I used to build attr after xorg, and on those old builds attr's configure did find it. Nowadays it finds /bin/true and is happy to build without makedepend. Mesa _used_ to use makedepend, at least between 7.0.2 and 9.0.1, but as of 9.2 it no longer referenced it. Firefox used to check for makedepend, but no longer does so. It still creates makedepend files, but I guess that (and mozjs checking for makedepend) is just a leftover from the old way of building. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
