RE: target dependency bug

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:53 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: Lars J. Aas; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: target dependency bug
> 
> 
> On Apr 16, 2001, "Robert Collins" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I'm happy with --enable-dependency-tracking... but will all the end
> > users?
> 
> If they want dependence tracking, yes.  Note that it will be enabled
> by default if it can be obtained as a side effect of compilation.
> Also note that, if the dependence file is a generated file that is not
> part of the distribution, simply enabling dependence tracking won't be
> enough: when make decides to build the file, it doesn't know yet what
> its dependences are.  Dependencies on generated files must be
> explicitly encoded in the Makefile, except for BUILT_SOURCES, that
> automake takes care of building by itself.

Thats the bug I reported: a built_source that doesn't get encoded as a
dependency by automake.

Rob

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