[Nut-upsdev] recent and planned changes

[Arnaud Quette]

2005/9/17, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca>:
> 
> Arnaud Quette wrote:
> >
> > 2005/9/16, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca>:
> > >
> > > * I committed into CVS the gendb patch that I sent to the mailing list
> > > on September 12. Arnaud, I hope you approve of this patch; it is
> > > more reliable than the previous method in tracking the correct
> > > dependencies.
> >
> >
> > no, I reject this one as is.
> > it's gcc specific to gcc, so has to be tied some way to autodetecting if
> > we're running gcc...
> 
> The logical answer to this is: dependencies don't need to be generated
> by the user at compile time. They need to be generated by the
> maintainer at release time (and occasionally by developers in CVS).
> Assuming that the maintainer has access to "gcc", there is no
> portability cost to generating the dependencies this way.


it wasn't acceptable if being user linked (ie called by make clean).
it's more acceptable as a maintainer feature . But I still want some test
to make a clear error msg if the compiler is not gcc. Thanks to complete it.

Arnaud
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