stale .depend during -HEAD builds?

[Masao Uebayashi]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Is this a fallout from the meta mode changes?
>
> Without more detail, its hard to be certain.
>
>> make[4]: /home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/../obj/mips//mips.mips/usr/home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/usr.sbin/praliases/.depend,
>> 78: ignoring stale .depend for
>> /home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/../obj/mips//mips.mips/usr/home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/lib/libsmdb/libsmutil.a
>>
>
> Is that what your objdirs normally look like?
>
> The message from make is standard bmake behavior.
> An unresolved and unresolvable dependency learned from .depend
> is ignored, in case it is just stale data.
> If it really is needed the build will fail anyway, but in 90% of cases
> it is just stale data and the build sails happily on.

I wish make(1) had a flag, like cc's warning level, that controls
strictness, and failed when a stale depend is found.