On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > I got some special software development experiences by the usage of the > program “GNU Make 4.2.1-1.7” on my openSUSE Tumbleweed system. The > functionality “Generating prerequisites automatically” is desribed in > the manual. I would like to check again how good this works at the > moment. > > I am trying also a software out where such build dependencies are > provided by the tool “ocamldep”. Unfortunately, I observe still broken > build tries because of missing files which should have been built > before. I started to “fix” this for my needs by the addition of small > make functions which construct extra rules. But it seems that such > special stuff should usually not be needed according to the > documentation. > > I would appreciate further advice for this issue.
Could you provide examples of the Makefiles rules you tried? It's very difficult to provide feedback without complete information. Does ocamldep generate output suitable for inclusion by make? What rule did you use to invoke it? Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
