Re: Moved sourcefiles and dependencies, automatic dependencies

[Kristof Provost]

On 2007-07-31 09:57:09 (+0200), Torsten Mohr <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in a project in the office we store the list of files in a variable and
> use automatic dependency generation.
> 
> I generate the name of the dependency file for the sources from the basename
> of the files and prepend a different directory.  This way
> "some/where/on/disk/main.c" becomes "dependencies/main.d".
> 
> If somebody now copies main.c into a/different/dir and changes the entry
> in the variable in the Makefile to "a/different/dir/make.c", still the
> name of the dependency file is "dependencies/main.d".  This file then
> does not get remade and gets included and contains the old information,
> so the wrong file gets compiled.
> 
> Of course i can tell the users to delete the dependency file when they
> move a source file, but i'd like to have a more bullet-proof way.
> Can anybody give me a hint on this?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any hints,
> Torsten.

It there any reason you can't use the full path, or at least the path
relative to the root of your project directory?

Regards,
Kristof