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Re: iconvdata headers depend on Makefile why?
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: iconvdata headers depend on Makefile why?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 10 May 1998 18:20:25 -0700
- Cc: libc-hacker@gnu.org
- References: <199805110044.UAA08330@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> writes:
> All the generated iconvdata headers depend on the makefile. This
> produces much spurious recompilation if you change one line. I tried
> having it use move-if-change but then it rewrites all the headers and
> throws them away on every rebuild (since the timestamps never get
> updated). Why is this necessary?
Because there are some shell and awk rules in the Makefiles. We can
remove the dependencies later once the iconvdata development is stable
but for now I want to leave them in.
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