[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] top-level Makefile fix

[Sidik Isani]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:43:57PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >   There's a dependency bug with the Makefile causing libraries not
> >   to be rebuilt properly.
> known, and was made this way by reason
> anyway i'm also thinking on changing it
> 
> >   It could be fixed very concisely with:
> > 
> > .PHONY: $(COMMON_DEPS)
> 
> hmm
> 
> >   However I'd recommend a slightly different fix which works on
> >   more versions of "make".  A patch and explanation (in the
> >   comment at the end) are attached.
> 
> the patch is bad - several libs, like loader, depends on configuration and
> isn't always compiled.

Hi -

  I'm pretty sure it is not bad: it only ADDS the "force" dependency
  to some targets.  It can never cause anything to NOT build that was
  building before.  Try it.

Be seeing you,

- Sidik