From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: sim: using automake
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tyasd92f.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22RafAq6iqz2mUTMh=ebA=FO9+QdUO+O4ymuKHfP9bW35A@mail.gmail.com> (Doug Evans's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:38:13 -0700")
>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:
Doug> [I would prefer to avoid automake.]
Can you say why?
Doug> Question: can automake handle dependencies on machine generated files?
Doug> I think(!) the answer is "no", so automake doesn't solve all problems.
Yes.
Doug> Observation: gdb no longer manually describes dependencies (*1) yet it
Doug> doesn't use automake.
Yes, I did this by porting the code from automake, since that seemed
simpler than moving gdb to use automake. Using automake would actually
offer other benefits, I just didn't want do deal with the details of the
transition.
Tom
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-07-08 4:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-07-11 14:57 ` Tom Tromey
2011-07-11 16:38 ` Doug Evans
2011-07-11 17:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-07-11 17:25 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-07-11 17:42 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-07-11 17:54 ` Doug Evans
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