Re: Libtool convenience library dependence check

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Andre Caldas wrote:

> Since nobody answers to my post, I will  ;-)
>
> I am using --disable-dependency-tracking as a configure option to avoid this 
> problem. What kind of dependency can I expect to fail with this?

If you edit a source file and add or remove a header file inclusion, 
then make will not notice the change so it may produce bad results. 
If you are using a distributed package, then the Makefile should 
include the existing dependency information within itself.  If you 
bootstrapped from scratch, then there may be not header dependency 
information at all.

This is actually an Automake issue rather than an Autoconf issue since 
Automake is the one which adds the --disable-dependency-tracking 
option.

You would usually only use --disable-dependency-tracking if you are 
using some obscure proprietary compiler and it misbehaves while 
compiling the package.

Bob
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