Re: RFA: automatic dependency tracking

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:

Ralf> OpenBSD make is even educating:
Ralf> | Using $< in a non-suffix rule context is a GNUmake idiom (line 2 of Makefile)

Hilarious :)

>> FWIW I did not want to change where the build puts objects; I didn't
>> see a particular benefit to doing this.

Ralf> It allows you to remove about 190 lines from the Makefile.
Ralf> If you like, I can redo the patch or post a followup one, for this.

I am curious about this.  I thought old-style '.c.o' rules did not
handle subdirectories properly.  Is that not so?  Or, what approach
were you planning to take?

>> 3.80 was released in October 2002.  So, I am not really worried about
>> this myself.  I didn't see any docs to update.

Ralf> Hmm.  It seems I have to get some of my test systems' admins to move
Ralf> away from 3.79.1 then ...

Ouch.  Point taken.

Ralf> Here ya go.

Thanks.
I think you should put your name on the ChangeLog entry.

Tom