From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: Andrew Lunn Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] Makefile dependancies on *~ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 05:04:00 -0000 Message-id: <39B38FD8.7C290C37@redhat.com> References: <200009040818.KAA00930@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00018.html Andrew Lunn wrote: > > While playing with eCos to add some new functionality i've been > editing the include files in the repository. This has generated a > number of emacs *~ files. Some step in the configuration process has > put depentancies on these *~ files into my makefiles... > [snip] > Now i've cleaned out all the *~ files make no longer works. Would it > be possible to add a filter to this process so that it throws out file > like *~, *.bak, *.orig, *.rej, etc I'll act as deputy Bart and say that we know the build system can be improved in many respects, and we intend to rewrite the makefile generation part at some point when we have time(!). Out of interest, as a workaround you can rerun "ecosconfig tree" and it will get rid of the invalid dependencies. Jifl -- Red Hat, 35 Cambridge Place, Cambridge, UK. CB2 1NS Tel: +44 (1223) 728762 "Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow." || These opinions are all my own fault