Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:40:34 -0500 | From | Michael Elizabeth Chastain <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4 |
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Linus Torvalds writes:
> It can be irritating as hell, but I couldn't come up with any reasonable > fix. Maybe somebody can come up with a better .hdepend strategy that won't > have that confusion. I couldn't make "make" do what I wanted any way that > didn't have this problem.
Touching .h files is a kludge. I have a whole new set of Makefiles that doesn't touch the .h files at all, and it runs faster than the existing Makefiles, too.
In the meantime, how about changing scripts/mkdep.c to emit .PRECIOUS lines for the appropriate files? .PRECIOUS is well-documented and it's meant for this problem. And mkdep.c knows when it is emitting a "touch" command, so on the next line, it could easily add ".PRECIOUS : foo.h ;".
I don't have time to mess with this myself, but if someone wants to send me a patch, I can test it.
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mailto:mec@shout.net> "love without fear"
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