irqbalance and gccmakedep

[Dennis Veatch]

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:26, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 10:41, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > irqbalance fails a lin because I don't have gccmakedep installed. Yeah
> > ok. easy thing lin gccmakedep. Execpt I don't see this a really being
> > needed, unless I'm overlooking something.
> >
> > The only instance of gccmakedep in the Makefile is;
> >
> > # rule for building dependency lists, and writing them to a file
> > # named ".depend".
> > .depend:
> >         rm -f .depend
> >         gccmakedep -f- -- $(CFLAGS) -- *.c > .depend
> >
> > But gccmakedep is used to call 'gcc -M' and there's none of that I could
> > see. So replaced gccmakedep with make and there were no errors.
> >
> > This is probably much ado about nothing, just annoyed I need to install
> > something else on a server that doesn't have a GUI of any sort or
> > anything Xorg related.
>
> Well did a sedit changing gccmakedep to make and lined it. Didn't like
> that, hung at the "-f- -- $(CFLAGS) -- *.c > .depend". Odd though doing it
> from cli worked.
>
> This'll suck if I have to install XOrg just to get gccmakedep since it
> looks for the rc file.

Ok. Just a follow up here.

Moe altered gccmakedep/BUILD for those who don't or want any X installed. 
Thanks Moe.

And just for posterity.  Arjan van de Ven says "gccmakedep -f- -- $(CFLAGS) -- 
*.c > .depend" can be replaced with "touch .depend".

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