Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
On Thursday, February 9, 2023, Tom Tromey wrote:
It's been a long time since I worked on automake, but the dependency
tracking in automake is designed not to need to rebuild or pre-build dep
files. Doing that means invoking the compiler twice, which is slow.
Instead,
On Thursday, February 9, 2023, Tom Tromey wrote:
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> It's been a long time since I worked on automake, but the dependency
> tracking in automake is designed not to need to rebuild or pre-build dep
> files. Doing that means invoking the compiler twice, which is slow.
> Instead, automake computes
Dmitry> i am not looking forward to -include (even though -include is
Dmitry> supported by bmake, gnu make and sun make).
Dmitry> -include robs the user the error message should make fails to rebuild a
depfile.
Dmitry> i'd rather introduce rules to rebuild depfiles, as presented in the
Dmitry> ear
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:15 PM Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:53, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> It would probably take a new m4 macro AM_MAKE_SILENT_INCLUDE that tests
> for the availability of "-include", and if found, also somehow changes
> the rest of the depfile logic to use ab
On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:53, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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>> If you try this with e.g.
>> OpenBSD make, it will complain.
>
>That's why i asked those questions about portability.
>Do i understand it correctly, that a need to support bmake forces
>automake to abandon a good mechanism to rebuild depf
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:41 AM Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> This is a GNU extension.
Not only gnu. Also supported by sun make.
> If you try this with e.g.
> OpenBSD make, it will complain.
That's why i asked those questions about portability.
Do i understand it correctly, that a need to support bma
On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:33, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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>> .Po file contents control when an .o file -- and thus also
>> the .Po file itself -- is remade.
>> If a .Po file has no practical content, there is no indication
>> that it needs to be remade.
>
>Absence of the depfile is such an indicati
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 11:54 AM Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> depfiles are created ahead of make so that the include command
> in Makefiles succeeds (include-with-ignore is non-portable AFAIR).
Atleast, gnu make and sun make can build included files.
> depfiles are not specifically tracked; this is i
