On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 07:56:05PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > We do need a story for generated headers. I'd be happy with explicit > dependencies in the Makefiles indicating what source files depend on > what generated headers. We'd still be able to get rid of 99% of the > dependencies in our Makefiles, and avoid most of the cases where > something either (a) fails to get rebuilt, or (b) gets rebuilt too often.
Except, this is the most frequently reported dependency problem - missing dependencies on the generated headers lead to parallel build failure. I suspect we could get a lot of mileage out of something like libiberty uses, and declaring the things it can't handle to be bugs... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
