>>>>> "Olaf" == olafBuddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> That's too bad. You must not have run into the various bugs with the
>> old approach.
Olaf> What kind of bugs? And why is the new approach better in this
Olaf> regard?
Read the history:
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/dependencies.html
>> I've planned for a while to speed up compilations when using gcc3, by
>> noticing this at configure time and subsequently avoiding the use of
>> depcomp. As a side effect this should clean up the output a bit.
Olaf> But what does that got to do with gcc3?
gcc3 added some new -M options that are useful for automake. With
gcc3 we can reduce the dependency tracking code to a single line. For
non-gcc3 compilers, we have to do a lot of extra processing. Take a
look at depcomp for the ugly details.
Tom
