Re: [AD] MacOS X dependency bug fix?

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 16:04 +0200, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > The attached patch is an attempt by a non-mac user to fix the compilation 
> > problem due to incorrect dependency detection.
> 
> It seems that it does not actually solve the problem, but running make 
> depend does. This leads me to belief that the packaged makefile.dep is 
> somehow wrong, which makes sense to me too as I'm not running MacOS X.
> Does anyone know if running make depend in Linux should correctly generate 
> the dependencies for MacOS X as well? If not, then why is make depend not 
> listed as a required step in the OSX build process?
> 

Probably because releases should ship with a pre-generated
makefile.dep.. but well, I have no idea as well.

> > All it does is add pcpu.m to the list of MacOS X specific files, which 
> > actually makes sense to do anyway.
> 
> Although the patch doesn't do what it aimed to, I have applied it anyway 
> because this reduces the number of hacks in the build system, which is 
> probably a good idea overall.
> 

I wonder why it worked without it at all.. isn't makefile.lst the file
to select what to compile and link? Well, apparently.. the OSX build is
somewhat different..

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Elias Pschernig