From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] newlib: enable automatic dependency generation
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:49:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjMER9PzQKivxeKu@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ecd50ec-f9f4-9cf9-a5ce-52f082c50e50@embedded-brains.de>
On Mar 17 07:25, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 17/03/2022 03:16, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > This was disabled as part of the migration away from the cygnus option
> > as that implied no-dependencies.
> >
> > We currently have 1-to-1 updates enabled -- if you touch a .c file,
> > the corresponding .o file will be rebuilt. But if you touch a header
> > file, none of the files using that get rebuilt.
> >
> > Not sure how much we care. I think we want this since it's probably
> > what people are expecting. It increases the size of the Makefile a
> > bit, and adds a little build overhead to generate & process.
>
> I think the proper dependency tracking should be enabled. This helps
> everyone doing changes in Newlib. The dependency files generated by GCC are
> also sometimes helpful to figure out what is actually used to build a file.
Right, we want that.
Corinna
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2022-03-17 2:16 Mike Frysinger
2022-03-17 6:25 ` Sebastian Huber
2022-03-17 9:49 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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