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sr #105252: Documentation of '4.14 Generating Prerequisites Automatically'

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Submitted:  Thu 23 Mar 2006 03:22:13 PM UTC
   
 
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Thu 23 Mar 2006 03:52:56 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Your suggestion is definitely clearer; unfortunately it doesn't work with older versions of GCC (GCC 2.x), which don't support the -MF or -MT flags.

However, in the next release of GNU make (the one after 3.81) I'm planning on dropping support for K&R C and modifying the code to require a C89 compiler at least.  At that time it might be worthwhile to modify the manual to assume a GCC 3.x compiler as well.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
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Thu 23 Mar 2006 03:22:13 PM UTC, original submission:  

In Section '4.14 Generating Prerequisites Automatically', to generate:

main.o main.d : main.c defs.h

you propose:

%.d: %.c
        @set -e; rm -f $@; \
         $(CC) -M $(CPPFLAGS) $< > $@.$$$$; \
         sed 's,\($*\)\.o[ :]*,\1.o $@ : ,g' < $@.$$$$ > $@; \
         rm -f $@.$$$$

I think it may be clearer without the criptic sed command. I propose:

%.d: %.c
$(CC) -MM -MF $@ -MT $(<:.c=.o) -MT $@ $<

producing the same output.

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