Re: Advanced Auto-Dependency Generation. A slight improvement.

[Greg Chicares]

On 2006-2-1 0:07 UTC, Nick Patavalis wrote:
> 
>     http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html
> 
> There is, though, a minor glitch. With the proposed implementation, if
> a dependency file somehow gets deleted while the corresponding object
> file remains standing, in this case, dependency tracking *silently
> stops working*. [...]
> 
> Luckily there seems to be a simple solution:
> 
> - Make the object files depend on the corresponding dependency files
> 
> - Provide rules with empty command-sets targeting the dependency
>   files.

A similar idea is presented here:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2004-01/msg00058.html
and you might be interested in the ensuing discussion.

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