On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:52:44PM -0800, keeme xu wrote:
> Hi all:
> Recently, I am reading the Makefile under linux
> and encountered some problem.
> Can anybody explain these code to me?
> //================================================
> dep-files: scripts/mkdep archdep
> include/linux/version.h
> scripts/mkdep -- init/*.c > .depend
> scripts/mkdep -- `find $(FINDHPATH) -name SCCS -prune
> -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name modversions.h -print` >
> .hdepend
> $(MAKE) $(patsubst %,_sfdep_%,$(SUBDIRS))
> _FASTDEP_ALL_SUB_DIRS="$(SUBDIRS)"
> //================================================
>
> what do the scripts/mkdep do?
It is part of the 2.5 kernle's way to find dependencies for a given
file. mkdep parse the file and avoid comments etc. to find what CONFIG_
symbols ar used.
ee the code in scripts/mkdep.c for more details.
This part has been made radically different in the 2.6 kernel.
Sam
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