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From: willy@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Willy Konijnenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Recursive #includes
Message-ID: <200@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 28 Feb 89 14:40:40 GMT
References: <964@philmds.UUCP> <2533@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <2533@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>From article <964@philmds.UUCP>, by leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit):
>> ... it is never correct to declare make dependencies
>> between source files ...
>
>y.tab.c: gram.y
>
>   :-)  Dave
Tough luck, y.tab.c is not your source.
It is actually generated from gram.y, as opposed to

prog.c: incl.h

where prog.c is not generated from incl.h, hence an out-of-date prog.c will
remain out-of-date and force another recompilation next time around, etc.

Ok, ok, I saw the :-) :-)

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	Willy Konijnenberg		<willy@idca.tds.philips.nl>