Re: Generating missing depfiles by an automake based makefile

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Edward Welbourne wrote:

> Dmitry Goncharov (10 February 2023 00:24) wrote:
>> When a depfile is missing (for any reason) the current automake
>> makefile creates a dummy depfile.
>
> This seems misguided.
> Better to
>
>  include $(wildcard $(DEPFILES))

This sounds like a GNU make feature.  Automake-generated Makefiles do 
not rely on GNU make.

Bob
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