Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] make: fix where dependency *.d are stored.

[Alex Bennée]

Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 09:57:03AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> 
>> Victor Kaplansky <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
<snip>
>> >
>> > As a hack, we also touch two sources for generated *.hex files. This is
>> > to ensure *.hex rebuild, when old revision is switched to the new one.
>> 
>> While I'm sure this was useful for testing do we really want to include
>> such a hack in the git history?
>
> This is the hint for why it's needed there:
> "This is to ensure *.hex rebuild, when old revision is switched to the
> new one."
> Maybe add this, making this more explicit:
>       Without this hack, anyone doing "git pull; make" will not get *.hex 
> rebuilt
>       correctly since the dependency file would be missing.

Ahh that makes more sense :-)

-- 
Alex Bennée