On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:42PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 19:03 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> This can't be right. In all of the times that I've run a "make clean", >> I have never needed this. A .o relying on .cc is a given. You don't >> need an explicit rule. > >Without it, after a successfully completed build: > >$ make clean -C i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin >[...] >$ make >[...goes until winsup/cygwin...] >[...compiles all files until link stage...] >g++: devices.o: No such file or directory >make[3]: *** [cygwin0.dll] Error 1 > >So in this case, apparently it is.
And, without it, I continue to build without problem. I *am* building on Linux, though, so maybe that's the difference. Regardless, I am not going to add a rule that doesn't make sense. cgf
