Description

Our first attempt at automatic dependency tracking was based on the method recommended by GNU make. (see Generating Prerequisites Automatically in The GNU make Manual)

This version worked by precomputing dependencies ahead of time. For each source file, it had a special ‘.P’ file that held the dependencies. There was a rule to generate a ‘.P’ file by invoking the compiler appropriately. All such ‘.P’ files were included by the ‘Makefile’, thus implicitly becoming dependencies of ‘Makefile’.

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