Re: make depend (Re: [HACKERS] Coming attractions: VPATH build; makevariables issue)

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Tom Lane writes:
> 
> > > dep depend:
> > >   $(CC) -MM $(CFLAGS) *.c >depend
> > 
> > Why?  Shouldn't CFLAGS include CPPFLAGS?  These targets seem correct
> > to me as they stand ... other than assuming CC is gcc, but nevermind
> > that...
> 
> Just a sanity check:  Does anyone use `make depend'?  Does everyone know
> about the better way to track dependencies?  Does every-/anyone know why
> `make depend' is worse?  I just don't want to bother fixing something
> that's dead anyway...

Ummmm ... I don't *hangs head*  The only place I've ever really seen it
used extensively is the FreeBSD OS/kernel builds ...