On Wednesday 2023-02-08 03:39, Dmitry Goncharov wrote: > >This rule restores a missing depfile file by creating a file with one >line '# dummy'. (Next version of automake will create an empty one). >There must have been a reason for generating such a depfile.
depfiles are created ahead of make so that the include command in Makefiles succeeds (include-with-ignore is non-portable AFAIR). >However, this depfile fails dependency tracking. Once a depfile was >removed and recreated in this shape, it will no longer perform its >function. depfiles are not specifically tracked; this is impossible, due to a chicken-egg problem. .Po file contents control when an .o file -- and thus also the .Po file itself -- is remade. If a .Po file has no practical content, there is no indication that it needs to be remade.
