Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]> · Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:03:03 -0700

> The right thing to do is to create a make dependency relationship between
> the .o file and the .h file.  This will cause make to update the .o file by
> recompiling the .st whenever the .h file changes.
> 
> You can do this manually by editing entries into Makefile.Vx 
> like this:
> 
> snl_prog.o: some_header.h another_header.h yet_another.h
> 
> For .c files, you can do this by using "make depend", which generates a
> file called DEPENDS in the O.<arch> directory which is then 
> used by the makefiles.

Hello,

Perhaps this nugget could be added to the IOC source configuration 
management guide - specifically here:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/asd/controls/epics/EpicsDocumentation/AppDevManuals/iocScm-3.13.2/buildingComponents.html#4_3_4

Thanks,

Stephanie Allison

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System