[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-472881 ] distutils does not deduce dependencies (original) (raw)

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Bugs item #472881, was opened at 2001-10-19 11:49 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=472881&group_id=5470

Category: Distutils Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Skip Montanaro (montanaro) Assigned to: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) Summary: distutils does not deduce dependencies

Initial Comment: I just "cvs up"d my Python tree and executed "make". Nothing much changed, except patchlevel.h. Make got this right and rebuilt everything (patchlevel.h is included from Python.h, so changing patchlevel.h should cause make to rebuild just about everything).

Distutils failed to notice this, however, so it didn't rebuild any modules. In this case, I think the failure to rebuild is probably innocuous, but I'm not at all confident it will do the right thing if I modify some other file. For example, I've noticed that it's not sufficient to delete a module's .o file when you want to rebuild it. Distutils still thinks the .so file is okay.

If distutils is going to take the place of make I think it's going to need to do a much better job deducing file dependencies or provide a robust way for a person to tell it what those dependencies are.

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