> Hmmm. Ok, but then why does the "depend" phase of it work? If there are no
> .depends, and a "make" is done, it will start the depend phase and then
> move on without even doing a:
> include .depend
>
> But it still works. Is there something magical about .depend files?
No, but the worst that can happen if they're missing is that make
fails to update an object file when one of the headers on which it
depends changes; the assumption is that if they're missing you either
have a clean source tree or don't care about correct dependency
information. Failing to read .config, on the other hand, has far more
serious consequences, since you'll end up with a (useless) kernel
built as if you answered "no" to everything.
HTH. HAND. (HIBT?)
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name=Makefile
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
Off-topic: anyone know if PINE's authors have fixed this bug yet? (I
see no good reason to base64-encode ASCII text.)
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