Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:07:40 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Why the djgpp.ver dependancy?
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, CBFalconer wrote:

> Why does the underlined dependancy appear? Can it be suppressed?

DJ already explained why it appears.  Suppressing it is tricky, unless 
you edit the results of "gcc -MM" with Sed.

Does that dependency really hurt you?

> I am trying to set up automatic dependancies in the makefile early
> in the project, since I expect them to change continuously.  Can I
> make them from the list of object files alone? i.e. have the gcc
> -MM operate on filename.c when supplied filename.obj.

GNU Make's pattern rules should help you, in conjunction with the $* 
built-in variable (which extracts the stem of a file name).

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