From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16043 invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2008 09:51:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 16035 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Jun 2008 09:51:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:51:04 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Xq6-0001RW-0I for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:50:58 +0000 Received: from 78.158.192.230 ([78.158.192.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:50:57 +0000 Received: from vladimir by 78.158.192.230 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:50:57 +0000 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: Re: [non-stop] 01/10 Add "executing" property Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <200806152203.14626.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20080616012617.GA8944@caradoc.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00317.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Vladimir Prus >> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:42:09 +0400 >> >> It's actually fairly weird that one has to maintain dependencies by hand, > > We are obviously miscommunicating. What I meant was simple entries > like: > > * Makefile.in (foo.o): Add bar.c and bar.h to prerequisites. > or > * Makefile.in (foo.o): Remove foobar.h from prerequisites. > > That's a far cry from ``maintaining dependencies by hand''. In fact, it is the same. Why do we, in 2008, need to add 'bar.h' to dependencies of foo.o? That's painful and, honestly, laughable at, thing. And the sample changelog entries above exactly duplicate that information that we should not maintain in the first place. - Volodya