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From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: makefile dependency revamp
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090604055802.GD22124@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34ouxvz3f.fsf@google.com>

Hello Ian,

* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:31:16PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I'm sure I must be missing something blatantly obvious, but:
> > why is bintuils generating dependencies in trees that use automake
> > anyway?  Is there anything wrong with automatic dependency tracking?
> 
> Historically we did it because 1) our dependency tracking system
> preceded to conversion to automake, so we had it anyhow; 2) when we
> converted to automake, automake's dependency tracking was not reliable
> for all compilers, and since the binutils are required for gcc on some
> platforms people do build the binutils with all sorts of compilers.

OK, thanks for the explanation.

> These days it may be quite reasonable to switch over to automake's
> dependency tracking.

Guess I'll be looking at that then, too.

Cheers,
Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-26  3:38 Alan Modra
2009-06-03 18:39 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-06-03 20:31   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-06-04  5:58     ` Ralf Wildenhues [this message]
2009-06-04  6:58   ` Alan Modra

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