As part of a private investigation I noticed that both WINE and LINUX kernel build systems have a mkdep utility which generates in clude file dependencies. What I am looking for is to understand the reasons behind this decision for the two very popular projects instead the recipe suggested by GNU make documentation.
For us because we do not wish to depend on GNU Make.
For Linux kernel, no idea.
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
As part of a private investigation I noticed that both WINE and LINUX kernel build systems have a mkdep utility which generates in clude file dependencies. What I am looking for is to understand the reasons behind this decision for the two very popular projects instead the recipe suggested by GNU make documentation.
For us because we do not wish to depend on GNU Make.
Note that we depend on GNU make anyway. In particualr there are some issues on FreeBSD if you try to compile with the default make. If not in the regular case, at least in the 'out-of-tree' case:
../src/configure make
This fails. If I use gmake instead then it works. But maybe it's more an incompatibility with FreeBSD's default make than a dependency on the GNU make.
-- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware
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