Re: --include-deps

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:
> > A bunch of the patches you've submitted include changes to
> > autogen.sh like:
> >
> > +case $CC in
> > +*xlc | *xlc\ * | *lcc | *lcc\ *) am_opt=--include-deps;;
> > +esac
> > +if test -n "$CC" && echo $CC | grep -v gcc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> > +        $CC -v 2>&1 | grep gcc || am_opt=--include-deps
> > +fi
> > +
> 
> I think it's much simpler to just use an automake pre-release off it's
> "stable" branch.
> 
>   ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.4l.tar.gz
> 
> It has pretty good support for dependency handling for non-GCC
> compilers.  --include-deps is obsolete.

It's not obsolete until another automake release is made. 
I don't want to be requiring CVS snapshots or prereleases
of tools we depend on if we can possibly avoid it.

Regards,
                                        Owen