iconvdata headers depend on Makefile why?

[Ulrich Drepper]

Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:

> All the generated iconvdata headers depend on the makefile.  This
> produces much spurious recompilation if you change one line.  I tried
> having it use move-if-change but then it rewrites all the headers and
> throws them away on every rebuild (since the timestamps never get
> updated).  Why is this necessary?

Because there are some shell and awk rules in the Makefiles.  We can
remove the dependencies later once the iconvdata development is stable
but for now I want to leave them in.

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