Re: 19980917 compiling

[Gregory McLean <gregm comstar net>]

> In message <3602CD74.A8F922CD@sound.net>, Steve Luzynski writes:
>  ] Has anyone looked at the thing to see just how bad it is? I'm assuming
>  ] that we would at least need to get ALL the makefiles working 100% in all
>  ] circumstances -- no more "no action for target 'maintainer-clean'"
>  ] messages like there are so many of now.
> 
> I think I've actually taken care of lots of such things locally in an 
> attempt to get my own script to build stuff correctly... my focus was 
> to get "make -q" to not lie as to whether something needs rebuilding
> and reinstalling or not, though.  (It's still somewhat flawed in that 
> when header files get deleted, .deps/* are out of line and make the 
> compile fail, so the script needs hand-holding.  I'll figure out ways
> around that eventually.)

I wonder if it would be a good patch/addtion to the make distclean target to
do something like 'rm -rf `find -name .deps -print`' or some such this appears
to cause no end of troubles when libraries change.

And if we are talking about a tinderbox setup this should definitly be in the
clobber stuff 
> 
> If someone is interested, I can try to figure out what I had to change
> for this.
> 
> 
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> Jonathan Sergent / sergent@io.com
> 
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Gregory McLean
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ComStar Communications Inc.