On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:14:00AM -0500, Bill Schmidt wrote:
> On 4/27/21 10:57 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:32:36AM -0500, Bill Schmidt wrote:
> > > 2021-03-03 Bill Schmidt <wschm...@linux.ibm.com>
> > >
> > > gcc/
> > > * Makefile.in (OUT_FILE_DEPS): New variable.
> > > (out_object_file): Depend on OUT_FILE_DEPS.
> > Why?
> >
> > E.g. gcc/config/i386/t-i386 contains:
> > i386.o: i386-builtin-types.inc
> > Similarly gcc/config/{arm/t-arm,ia64/t-ia64}
>
> Interesting! Thanks. This was probably an excess of caution on my part.
> When I specify something like this, I get a warning message that I am
> overriding an automatically generated dependency. If it's okay for me to
> ignore that warning, then I can withdraw this patch and simply specify the
> dependency directly. Sorry, I should have specified the reason for this in
> the patch note.
Can you state what exact warning is it and perhaps can you try to reproduce
that warning with a minimal Makefile example?
I don't remember seeing any such warning on i386 or arm.
Whether the dependency is specified on the goal with the commands to build
it or separately shouldn't really matter.
Jakub
