Re: Why does Makefile depend on version.c?

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:26:14PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Right now, configure reads version.c and then does AC_SUBST into
> gcc_version.  That means that an update that brings in a new version.c
> causes a Makefile rebuild, which seems pointless.  By just having the
> Makefile read the file we could avoid that.

My understanding is that this was in fact the goal (at the time).
An update forces a Makefile rebuild, and everything else already depends
on the Makefile.

Now that we have better per-file dependancies, this is probably overkill.

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