13 Jun
2002
13 Jun
'02
10:03 p.m.
Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
You will get more reliable dependency checking for one thing.
I doubt that. To get that checking, you need to tell make what the dependencies are - it won't automatically assume anything except that object files depend on their input sources. In particular, you will *not* get dependencies to header files - in my experience, those are the biggest source of build problems. If you add a scanning procedure for finding header files, you can integrate this into distutils' dependency mechanisms just as well as you can generate five different makefile formats from those data. Regards, Martin