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Re: Make includes (was Re: Time to update documenatiopn regarding supported make implementations?)
> When you say that other parts of the tree have their own dependency
> tracking code, do you mean things like the bfd directory? That code
> predates the current automake approach; when Ian converted bfd and
> friends to automake, the automake dependency tracking at the time
> really wasn't appropriate. Things have changed since then.
gcc uses hand-edited lists. libiberty has a script that updates the
Makefile. binutils has mkdep (actually, everyone has access to
mkdep). Most of these update the files in CVS; there isn't really
anything automatic happening during configure/build.