[lug] OT: Makefile oddity

[Ken Weinert]

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On Saturday 20 Apr 2002 17:43, you wrote:
> >>>>> ">" == D Stimits <stimits at idcomm.com> writes:
>
> Tom> However, there's a bug here.  It is the classic recursive make
> Tom> bug: you only have a dependency on the .cpp file.  So if you
> Tom> `touch config.h', nothing will be rebuilt -- which is wrong.
>
> >> I don't really consider this a bug, just a limitation of the
> >> technology.  makedepend would almost work, except it is designed
> >> for C instead of C++, and fails to deal properly with .cpp or .cxx
> >> extensions.

	I see that according to the above paper my method can suffer from some 
problems, but in the general case it works well for me.

	Here's an excerpt from a Makefile in a current project:

include ../../make.cfg

SRC =   attributes.c depth.c logit.c power.c mapstuff.c bprintf.c \
        walls.c getGameInfo.c getNextLine.c palette.c sph.c \
        getPlayerInfo.c getUnits.c support.c strupr.c rollDie.c storage.c

OBJ = $(SRC:.c=.o)

all $(ADJROOT)/lib/libbattle.a : $(ADJROOT)/lib/libbattle.a($(OBJ))

clean :
        rm -f *~ *.o *.d $(ADJROOT)/lib/libbattle.a

include $(OBJ:.o=.d)

%.d: %.c
        $(CC) -M -MG $(CFLAGS) $(INCLUDES) $(LOCAL_DEFINES) $< > $@


	Yes, it's gcc/g++ dependent - that's a feature, not a bug :)  The -M flag 
works for C++ files and it will include the-not-.h-terminated-filename 
headers (although the -MG explicitly removes the dependency on system 
headers).

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