Re: Generating missing depfiles by an automake based makefile

2023-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:53, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > >> If you try this with e.g. >> OpenBSD make, it will complain. > >That's why i asked those questions about portability. >Do i understand it correctly, that a need to support bmake forces >automake to abandon a good mechanism to rebuild depf

Re: Generating missing depfiles by an automake based makefile

2023-02-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:33, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > >> .Po file contents control when an .o file -- and thus also >> the .Po file itself -- is remade. >> If a .Po file has no practical content, there is no indication >> that it needs to be remade. > >Absence of the depfile is such an indicati

Re: Generating missing depfiles by an automake based makefile

2023-02-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2023-02-08 03:39, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > >This rule restores a missing depfile file by creating a file with one >line '# dummy'. (Next version of automake will create an empty one). >There must have been a reason for generating such a depfile. depfiles are created ahead of make s