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From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
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Subject: Re: make and autodependency thing
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:33:22 -0500
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> > Under borland there is the .autodepend statement in a Makefile but does
> > such a thing exist under DJGPP?
>
>         info gcc invoking preprocessor
>
> (the '-M' family of options).

I use the Borland make program as well as GNU make, and I have found valuable
things that each program does that the other doesn't, so I keep them both
around.

In the Borland make, the .autodepend statement causes the make program to
examine #include statements to figure out dependencies in C programs
automatically, even if there are recursive #includes.  It also digs into .LIB
library file headers for information about the dates of library members (as
opposed to the date of the .LIB file itself).  This works only for Intel OMF
libraries, as far as I know, so the .autodepend feature can't be used with
Unix-style archives such as are used in DJGPP compilations.  I found the
.autodepend statement a lot more convenient than using -M during compilation
and having a bunch of extra files to include, and wish GNU make had something
comparable.

On the other hand, GNU make allows one to say

%.exe: %.c

which allows generic targets to be compiled with a single make file, which
Borland can't do.

-Eric Rudd
rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com