On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nanako Shiraishi wrote: >> Junio, could you tell us what happened to this thread? >> >> Makefile improvements. No discussion. > > My bad. The previous version was very rough because I was not sure > yet how this could help in making the header dependency rules more > maintainable. If all compilers worth using support something like > gcc's -MD option (does MSVC?), we could switch over completely; > otherwise, we need some way to use the generated dependencies to > check the static ones, or the static ones will go stale. Nope, there's no support for -MD in MSVC. It does have an "/MD" option, but it means something completely different (link with multithreaded DLL CRT). There IS the "/showIncludes" option [1], which should make it possible to do some build-magic to generate the correct dependency-files, though. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hdkef6tk(VS.71).aspx -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html