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Re: request for timings - makedepend
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:56:05PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> We do need a story for generated headers. I'd be happy with explicit
> dependencies in the Makefiles indicating what source files depend on
> what generated headers. We'd still be able to get rid of 99% of the
> dependencies in our Makefiles, and avoid most of the cases where
> something either (a) fails to get rebuilt, or (b) gets rebuilt too often.
Except, this is the most frequently reported dependency problem -
missing dependencies on the generated headers lead to parallel build
failure.
I suspect we could get a lot of mileage out of something like libiberty
uses, and declaring the things it can't handle to be bugs...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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