Re: build dependencies

[Michael Hudson <mwh21 cam ac uk>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jonathan Sergent wrote:
> As we attempt to hash out this humongo ASCII art dependency tree, it 
> occurs to me that it might be easier if we put build-time dependencies 
> at the module level in some form that a build script or Makefile could 
> process.
> 
> Something like a file in each module called .build-deps with
> module-name: other-module other-module other-module
> 
> Just build ordering dependencies, not run-time dependencies, else you
> end up running in circles.
> 
> Thoughts?  If something like this gets into CVS, I will update the top 
> level makefile mess I posted the other day to grok it.

This is a very good idea! Might as well call it build-deps, though - you'd
probably want to see it.

Michael Hudson
Jesus College
Cambridge
mwh21@cam.ac.uk