On 10 March 2013 19:36, Gerhard Wiesinger <li...@wiesinger.com> wrote: > On 10.03.2013 18:04, Peter Maydell wrote: >> This is an example of a longstanding problem we have, where the >> makefile's dependency rules aren't able to cope with changes to the project >> source file structure, and so clean, distclean and incremental build >> sometimes breaks across a git update. I think this is pretty intractable as >> a problem to solve;
> But shouldn't "make distclean" do the job correctly (even with a changed > directory structure, at least for some time)? Yes, I agree that in an ideal world it should. However as I say I think it's a hard problem to solve in general. Patches welcome if you have any good ideas :-) -- PMM
