Re: (patch) configure-configure -> Makefile-Makefile

Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-10T01:05:36Z

On Dec 8, 2002, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> OK, this converts a bunch of the configure-configure dependencies to
> Makefile-Makefile dependencies. It leaves the ones which require 'maybe'ing.

I'd much rather have Makefile-Makefile dependencies only when they're
strictly necessary. I'm not even sure we actually want bfd/Makefile
to depend on libiberty/Makefile. Even though we know bfd/Makefile
takes info from libiberty/Makefile, I'd rather not have to regenerate
bfd/Makefile just because libiberty/Makefile changes. With this
change, it seems to me that just touching libiberty/Makefile would
cause the entire tree to be reconfigured. I don't like this. I'd
love to learn I'm mistaken.

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