Should build dependents when headers change

"Eric Lilja" <mindcoolergmail.com> wrote:
> My problem is that when I do a change in either header
and then perform
> a make, make doesn't think anything needs to be
recompiled. So I end up
> doing $ make clean ; make which, of course, rebuilds
everything. How
> should I teach make to recompile files dependent on the
headers I
> mentioned above whenever they have been changed?

I don't know if this group has a FAQ, but I did answer this
only two days
ago and it seems that only 5 more messages has been written
in this group
since then.

Method 1)

Manually add lines like:

crc32.o: crc32.h globals.h

Method 2)

Let gcc do the job for you, modify the following lines in
your Makefile:

%.o: %.cpp %.d
	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $<

%.d: %.cpp
	$(CXX) -MM $(CXXFLAGS) -MT $ $< > $

ifneq ($(wildcard *.d),)
include $(wildcard *.d)
endif

clean:
	rm -f $(OBJECTS) $(EXEC) *~ *.stackdump *.d

regards Henrik
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