stale .depend during -HEAD builds?

[Adrian Chadd]

That's like, 30 lines of C all up, including modifying usage(). You
should totally add it.



-a


On 22 June 2015 at 03:38, Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
>> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Is this a fallout from the meta mode changes?
>>
>> Without more detail, its hard to be certain.
>>
>>> make[4]: /home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/../obj/mips//mips.mips/usr/home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/usr.sbin/praliases/.depend,
>>> 78: ignoring stale .depend for
>>> /home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/../obj/mips//mips.mips/usr/home/adrian/work/freebsd/head-embedded-2/src/lib/libsmdb/libsmutil.a
>>>
>>
>> Is that what your objdirs normally look like?
>>
>> The message from make is standard bmake behavior.
>> An unresolved and unresolvable dependency learned from .depend
>> is ignored, in case it is just stale data.
>> If it really is needed the build will fail anyway, but in 90% of cases
>> it is just stale data and the build sails happily on.
>
> I wish make(1) had a flag, like cc's warning level, that controls
> strictness, and failed when a stale depend is found.