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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
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>>>>> "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