On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:55:30PM +0100, Florian Schirmer wrote: > Hi, > > >>>1. Doesn't adding -MD to the extra flags is enough to make the > >>>dependencys work? At least with gcc 3.1 (haven't tried any version > >>>below) it seems to work pretty well without any include changes to > >>>the Makefile. > > >No. How do you expect make to _use_ these dependencies when you didn't > inlcude them? > > I dont expect make to use them, i expect gcc itself to make use of it.
You didn't understand how make works. You should read the manual. > Since for generation the dep file it has to look at all the includes > files, so gcc will detected the changes itself, without any help from > make. I've not verified this and i dont care about it very much. I just > can tell you: it just works :D This is not possible. gcc is not invoked, when no failed dependencies are detected by make, because of that gcc _cannot_ make any use of dependencies. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2517 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@;uni-mannheim.de
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