Aleksandar Donev wrote:
> It is kind of a pain to have these long and repetitious depencies at times, but it
> seems they are necessary. If one uses simpler schemes, such as dependencies based
> on object files, then make will correctly infer the dependency from above and
> recompile C even if A is not explicitly listed in its dependency list.
we take a different position - simple is good, and machines are fast enough that
we can live with a bit of unnecessary recompilation - so we do dependencies based
purely on object files
-John A. Turner
Los Alamos National Lab
Advanced Scientific Simulation, CCS-2
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