Re: Can changes in a makefile trigger a rebuild?

[Ken Smith]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:49:11PM +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> 
> >I am not familiar with the -M option.
> 
> The -M options prints out a rule that says that the input file depends 
> on all the included files.
> You can have a look at chapter 4.14  in the GNU Make manual for more 
> information about it.

I see.  This is a flag for GCC and not GNU make.  Tom Tromey's "Advanced
Auto-Dependency Generation" doc avoids the need to have the target
depend on the dependency makefile.  You may want to check it out.

http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html

  Ken