From: wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) Subject: Re: Lines truncated by makedepend! Any info appreciated Date: 7 May 1993 09:20:32 GMT
HJ Lu (hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu) wrote:
: In article <dingelde.736597639@sokrates> dingelde@igd.fhg.de writes:
: >jay-m@equinox.unr.edu (J.A. MacDonald) writes:
: >
: >
: >> While trying to compile Khoros I've been running into a problem with
: >>very long lines in some of the Makefiles being truncated by makedepend,
: >[...]
: >
: >No solution, I had the same problem compiling "dirt", another large beast with
: >*very* long Imakefile-Lines. I hacked all Imakefiles to work with Linux-imake
: >myself. This was months ago. I wonder why noone else mentioned this problem and
: >that is still exists (it was with 0.98pl4). Any imake-gurus ???
: > Dennis
: >
: If you had ever read makedepend man page and soure code, you would have
: known makedepend is braindead. I NEVER USED makedepend myself. Long
: long time ago, I sent in my patch for linux.cf to use gcc instead of
: makedepend. It might have got lost somewhere. Please drop me a line,
: if you are interested.
The problem has showed up for XFree86 for one too. The Prbklem ther was ed
which needs to have more then 512 bytes LineBuffer Length. I don't know if
there is a public Version which incorporates more Linebuf.
Gruss
Wolfgang