On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:49:21PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:22:54PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
In what cases?
I don't know.
I think you never understand what the purpose of 'make depend' is.
You may be right here :-) I think make depend builds for each source file a list of all other files it includes (recursively). So if one of theses files has changed, an existing object file get rebuild. So if something in the include or #define structure (e.g. config.h) changes, you need to do a new make depend.
If none of files in the source directories is supposed to change, e.g. making a binary package from sources, 'make depend' is completely unnecessary,
That's my understanding of what make depend is good for.
I intepret "be good for" to "be useful for", not "be required for."
Jun-Young