re: Compiling WINE from source - Documentation needs to be updated?

[Dan Kegel]

And while we're on the subject, is "make depend" really
needed anymore?  I thought it happened automatically.

Compiling WINE from source - Documentation needs to be updated?

[Henri Verbeet]

2008/9/27 Dan Kegel :
> And while we're on the subject, is "make depend" really
> needed anymore?  I thought it happened automatically.

It does. You don't generally need "make install" either, you can just
run from whatever place you built Wine.

Compiling WINE from source - Documentation needs to be updated?

[Dan Kegel]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Henri Verbeet  wrote:
> 2008/9/27 Dan Kegel :
> > And while we're on the subject, is "make depend" really
> > needed anymore?  I thought it happened automatically.
>
> It does.

Great.  So can we get rid of all the doc that tells people to "make depend"?
> You don't generally need "make install" either, you can just
> run from whatever place you built Wine.

Yeah.   (Except in a few situations... I think there are a few rough
edges there that I run into when doing things like winegcc.  I forget
what, exactly.)

Compiling WINE from source - Documentation needs to be updated?

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dan Kegel"  writes:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Henri Verbeet  wrote:
> > 2008/9/27 Dan Kegel :
> > > And while we're on the subject, is "make depend" really
> > > needed anymore?  I thought it happened automatically.
> >
> > It does.
>
> Great.  So can we get rid of all the doc that tells people to "make depend"?

No, the automatic depend doesn't work with all make versions.