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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
To: wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel)
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:39:08 +0000 (GMT)
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> * make dep is only run once
> 
> Personally, I don't see this as a big problem.  Just tell people to 

I run make dep whenever I change config. Guess what - one cmp and I can
automate that as part of make. If the .config doesnt match the
.configwhendep then its time to make dep again

> That dependencies are absolute is also not a thing that has bothered me 
> too much, it's always possible to run "make dep" after moving a tree, 
> on the other hand, I don't use NFS a lot anymore, so I can see it being 
> a problem in other environments.

sed works too, as do symlinks
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