From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Automatic dependency tracking
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3skv1qcr3.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080625182858.GA25575@caradoc.them.org> (Daniel Jacobowitz's message of "Wed\, 25 Jun 2008 14\:28\:58 -0400")
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
Daniel> Option two: we could require GNU make.
FWIW it is pretty easy to implement automake-style dependency tracking
with GNU make. This failed for GCC, due to make bugs, but GCC's
Makefiles are weird.
GNU make is really much nicer than the other alternatives.
Daniel> Option four: We could borrow logic from BFD to generate dependency
Daniel> lists. What's going on with this code anyway? Why does BFD need
Daniel> dependency lists in Makefile.am if it uses automake?
The BFD code predates Automake and, as I recall, was deemed to work
well enough.
Tom
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[not found] ` <g35201$2uf$2@ger.gmane.org>
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2008-06-25 18:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-25 19:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-06-25 21:35 ` Stan Shebs
2008-06-26 0:08 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2008-06-26 1:47 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-06-26 9:48 ` Andrew STUBBS
2008-06-26 17:30 ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-27 10:23 ` Andrew STUBBS
2008-06-27 14:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-27 16:09 ` Andrew STUBBS
2008-06-27 14:30 ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-28 19:20 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-06-28 19:31 ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-29 14:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-29 15:36 ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-29 16:26 ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-29 14:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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