KDE4 porting: unsermake works

Nicolas Goutte nicolasg at snafu.de
Tue Nov 29 17:55:55 GMT 2005


On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:33, Stefan Winter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > But if no source code include the header, it will probably not be
> > generated.
>
> Okay, _now_ I'm astonished. I used to think the Makefile.* are the only
> thing the build system looks at. Parsing the sourcecode additionally is ...
> unexpected.

Unsermake parses the files to get the depedencies. And as the goal of 
unsermake is to be fast, it does not build what is not needed.

> Now I #included kwifi_interfacewidget.h and unsermake generates
> the .h as expected, both and without your patch.

If it works without, then it is fine. It means that the code was already good.

> Is this ingenuity documented somewhere?

Unsermake is not much documented, except its code (and a sort of white paper). 
And as it is already deprecated, I suppose that the documentation will not 
increase either.

>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter

Have a nice day!





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