cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config main.c

[Warner Losh]

From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/config main.c
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:08:14 -0700

> On Apr 22, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> >>> What exactly is broken? I don't see a breakage, even when source
> >>> files disappeared. I assume I must be forgetting something or not
> >>> doing everything right.
> >>
> >> when an include file is removed, make depend can fail to recreate
> >> .depend in the modules.
> >>
> > This is only a problem with NO_CLEAN builds, and it's not limited
> > to just modules -- I often saw this problem with the world builds.
> 
> Ok. Does it help if there's an option to make that supresses the
> automatic loading on .depend or more generically, allows one to
> name the depend file and it merely defaults to .depend (suppression
> is then accomplished by specifying /dev/null as the depend file)?
> If such option would be used for "make depend", would that resolve
> the problems in a generic way?

Since it is not a problem only with NO_CLEAN builds, I don't think
that something like that would fix the problem.

Warner