#1522: Improve determining make dependencies --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eschnett | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by rhaas):
This seems to combine dependency generation and compilation of the source code. Is that right?
While I am aware that this is considered the correct thing to do, with other codes that also do this I found that occasionally I would end up with corrupted dependency files (eg change in Makefile, change in compile options) that would invalidate some of the files in the dependency list. On that project the only fix is a make clean followed by a complete recompile, which takes a very long time. It would be nice if the cleandeps target still existed and if dependencies could be quickly regenerated.