Davic Necas wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:24:09PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > This is not a bug, an empty src/auto/config.h is included, because
> > otherwise "make depend" doesn't work.
>
> I would rather say this means an additional problem in the
> Makefiles. If a rule requires src/auto/config.h, it should
> create it (directly or indirectly by dependences) when it
> does not exist. That's what make is for.
This is a chicken-egg problem: You can't generate src/auto/config.h
without figuring out dependencies first. I ran into this problem once
and having to create an empty config.h file manually is bad.
> If `make distclean' can remove src/auto/config.h and create
> it empty, why it cannot be created [empty] by the thing that
> actually needs it?
Hmm, perhaps that would work. Perhaps someone can try it out.
The trick is to make it so that you don't rebuild too often.
> This indeed works strangely; for instance `make -jN' with
> N > 1 works with freshly unpacked sources, but it breaks
> completely after `make distclean' -- which one would expect
> to get the source tree to the same state.
Well, figure out why it breaks and fix it...
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