From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26174 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2008 20:07:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 26097 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Aug 2008 20:07:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:06:20 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m77K6Ii3030891 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:06:18 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m77K6Iqd007326; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:06:18 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-10-89.bos.redhat.com [10.16.10.89]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m77K6HEb003528; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:06:18 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 27374378159; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:06:16 -0600 (MDT) To: Ralf Wildenhues Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: automatic dependency tracking References: <20080807054840.GA26651@ins.uni-bonn.de> <20080807191516.GG27560@ins.uni-bonn.de> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey X-Attribution: Tom Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:07:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080807191516.GG27560@ins.uni-bonn.de> (Ralf Wildenhues's message of "Thu\, 7 Aug 2008 21\:15\:23 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2008-08/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues writes: Ralf> OpenBSD make is even educating: Ralf> | Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 2 of Makefile) Hilarious :) >> FWIW I did not want to change where the build puts objects; I didn't >> see a particular benefit to doing this. Ralf> It allows you to remove about 190 lines from the Makefile. Ralf> If you like, I can redo the patch or post a followup one, for this. I am curious about this. I thought old-style '.c.o' rules did not handle subdirectories properly. Is that not so? Or, what approach were you planning to take? >> 3.80 was released in October 2002. So, I am not really worried about >> this myself. I didn't see any docs to update. Ralf> Hmm. It seems I have to get some of my test systems' admins to move Ralf> away from 3.79.1 then ... Ouch. Point taken. Ralf> Here ya go. Thanks. I think you should put your name on the ChangeLog entry. Tom