On 2005-8-16 8:28 UTC, Anna Olsson wrote: > I've read the "Advanced Auto-Dependency Generation" article - but I'm > wondering about this: > > The solution to the second problem (make reports an error when the > dependecy file does not exist) is to make make not care about whether or > not dependency files exist. But what if a dependency file is accidentaly > deleted? Make doesn't care, but the corresponding target will never be > rebuilt until the corresponding .c file is altered or the .o file is > removed.
If you have to support users who might delete dependency files accidentally, then one remedy is to remove any .o file that doesn't have a corresponding .d file, before doing anything else. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
