Hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:14:50PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Are for dependency tracking, so that if you change a file dependencies > will be recompiled... This was the same in previous build. > > So we had: > --- > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I/usr/kerberos/include -g -O2 -MT > status.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/status.Tpo -c -o status.o status.c > ---
Fine with me...
> And now:
> ---
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include
> -I../../src/compat -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -g -O2 -MT
> status.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/status.Tpo" -c -o status.o status.c; then
> mv -f ".deps/status.Tpo" ".deps/status.Po"; else rm -f
> ".deps/status.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> ---
... convolution. Even the quotation marks get inflation now.
> What this makes sure is that if compile fails the dependencies is removed....
Why would anyone want to do that, on a production build?
But anyway. I've stated my opinion, you've stated yours, and now it's
up to the rest of the community to form a "community decision" which is
the way to go.
Thanks for explaining your view - I sometimes can't help myself, I'm an
old-fashioned programmer who writes Makefiles by hand and has a dislike
for automation that's brittle enough to require careful tending...
gert
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