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0 pointsnn312y ago0 comments

What is wrong wrong with just using the following.

Given it would be nice if make had a builtin macro to do this, but it is not too bad to type out.

depend: .depend

.depend: ${SRC} ${CC} -MM -I. ${SRC} > .depend.X && mv .depend.X .depend

include .depend

Makefile: .depend

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marshray12y ago· 2 in thread

Because now make can't build a clean source tree.

I believe make parses the entire Makefile before running it.

nn3OP12y ago

GNU make restarts when a Makefile: dependency changes. So it works perfectly fine. Try it ...

What happens if you list depend as a dependency of the first target?

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