In trying to get my module makefiles working properly, I noticed two things that seem to be at odds with each other (this is the 2.2 distro; apologies if it's fixed later):
1) modules.mk typically makes the *.la file depend on the *.slo files. 2) build/rules.mk in the distro changes the output of mkdepend from .o: to .lo:, meaning the .lo files now depend on the results. But with that modules.mk, nothing depends on the .lo files. So dependencies in the .deps file generated by this depend: rule won't cause anything to be built, because nothing depends on the .lo files (they get built as a side effect of building the .slo files via SH_*_COMPILE rules) that they have dependencies for. This is easy to check - make sure your dependencies are up to date and everything is built, touch a .h file, and try running make again. Nothing builds. Changing the .lo: to .slo: in rules.mk and trying the same experiment caused the expected behavior - the rebuilding of the various dependent files. Or am I overlooking something here? Thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
