Hi Jan,

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Jan Hudec <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 14:13:01 -0700, Robert Powell wrote:
> > If a member variable is added to BaseClass, BaseClass.vapi will change.
>  The
> > C file that is generated from Derived.vala will be identical, but it
> needs
> > to be recompiled because the base class has changed.  valac will not
> > regenerate Derived.c because it hasn't changed.
>
> The Makefile in your example is hopelessly broken. Derived.c has not
> changed,
> but it certainly includes BaseClass.h which must have had. The makefile
> fails
> to see that Derived.o depends on BaseClass.h and the fix should be to make
> the makefile directly aware of the fact.
>
>
You snipped the important bit "For this simple system, it would be easy
enough to update the makefile to watch for this dependency."  It was meant
to illuminate the fact that when systems get larger, trying to maintain
dependencies becomes terribly complicated.  I suggested a solution for the
problem.  Does anyone have any better suggestions (other than use
automake--automake is not an option for our projects here) for dealing with
larger systems?

Yours,

Rob
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