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Re: Why does Makefile depend on version.c?
> Does anyone know why we have this:
>
> Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in config.status $(srcdir)/version.c \
>
> in gcc/Makefile? The same goes for:
>
> config.status: $(srcdir)/configure $(srcdir)/config.gcc version.c
>
> It's hard for me to see why changing the version number requires these
> things to be rebuilt.
At one point, the version number was moved around through -D options
or something similar. You can see remnants of that here:
./Makefile.in: mainversion=`grep version_string $(srcdir)/version.c | sed -e 's/.*\"\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
./ada/Makefile.in: #mainversion=`sed -e 's/.*\"\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/' < $(srcdir)/version.c`
Also, gcc_version_trigger is set through configure.
It looks as if enough has been moved away from that to get rid of the
remnants now, at least in the gcc subdirectory.