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