Hello, * blippman wrote on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:15:48AM CEST: > I have write a makefile like this: > > OBJS = $(patsubst %.cpp ,%.o,$(CPP)) > DEPS = $(patsubst %.cpp ,%.d,$(CPP)) > > all : $(OBJS) $(DEPS)
> ... > %.d : %.cpp > ... > > -include $(DEPS) > > clean: > rm -f $(OBJS) > rm -f $(DEPS) > > we do make it will first generate the depend files (.d files); > > but when i do make clean, it also generate depend file before doing > clean. what can i do to avoid this uncessary operation! Well, you could use Automake to compute your dependencies, or a similar technique to the one Automake uses. It generates at the end of configure a set of stub dependency files. Cheers, Ralf
