"Eric Lilja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem is that when I do a change in either header and then perform > a make, make doesn't think anything needs to be recompiled. So I end up > doing $ make clean ; make which, of course, rebuilds everything. How > should I teach make to recompile files dependent on the headers I > mentioned above whenever they have been changed?
I don't know if this group has a FAQ, but I did answer this only two days ago and it seems that only 5 more messages has been written in this group since then. Method 1) Manually add lines like: crc32.o: crc32.h globals.h Method 2) Let gcc do the job for you, modify the following lines in your Makefile: %.o: %.cpp %.d $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $< %.d: %.cpp $(CXX) -MM $(CXXFLAGS) -MT $@ $< > $@ ifneq ($(wildcard *.d),) include $(wildcard *.d) endif clean: rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(EXEC) *~ *.stackdump *.d regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc8(at)uthyres.com Examples of addresses which go to spammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils