On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:53, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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>> If you try this with e.g.
>> OpenBSD make, it will complain.
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>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
On Thursday 2023-02-09 22:33, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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>> .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.
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>Absence of the depfile is such an indicati
On Wednesday 2023-02-08 03:39, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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>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
