make depend (Re: Coming attractions: VPATH build; make variables issue)

Tom Lane writes:

> > dep depend:
> >     $(CC) -MM $(CFLAGS) *.c >depend
> 
> Why?  Shouldn't CFLAGS include CPPFLAGS?  These targets seem correct
> to me as they stand ... other than assuming CC is gcc, but nevermind
> that...

Just a sanity check:  Does anyone use `make depend'?  Does everyone know
about the better way to track dependencies?  Does every-/anyone know why
`make depend' is worse?  I just don't want to bother fixing something
that's dead anyway...

(helpful reading: http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/autodep.html)

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/