On 6/15/15 5:43 AM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Some questions about this commit, which I'm sure more people must have:
Sure, good questions and as you say, many likely thinking the same.
* Was it really necessary to commit hundreds of clearly generated files?
Short answer is "yes" - since they are actually what makes the build
work.
* Couldn't these be generated on the fly, or with some "make depend" like
command?
The whole point is to avoid that overhead.
As long as there is a REALLY EASY WAY to regenerate them and it's well
documented,
(preferably in each generated file) and regenerating them generates
EXACTLY the same output
each time unless there is a source change, (so svn doesn't see a
change if there is none)
then I guess having them checked in is ok. (though a bit "yucky").
I'd like the ability to make a full make however that DOES regenerate
them if I feel I have the time.
* How to update these files, if you change anything in the 'real' Makefiles?
For now don't worry about it, those of us that want to build/play with
meta mode will take care of updating them.
Simply building in meta mode is all that is needed to update them.
* Or are you now the maintainer of these .depend files? :-)
For now, yes.
I think that's the only reasonable approach at this early stage.
Thanks
--sjg
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