[m-dev.] Requesting feedback on modifying dependency files for GRADE=il make

[Peter Ross]

On 7/30/07, Eric Taucher <gluon at earthlink.net> wrote:
> To simplify creating mercury.dll for GRADE=il, removing the intermediate
> targets from the .d files, when GRADE=il, seems to be advantageous. Doing so
> allows the process to go directly from Mercury source files to Intermediate
> Language and C# code, and then into mercury.dll as one file.
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> While I am aware that the .d files were created to allow compilation to
> succeed with C source, the Microsoft compilers are capable of generating
> code without the need for the dependencies. This may also apply to Java, but
> I haven't tested it yet.
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> Since this is such a major departure from the normal process, are there any
> things I might be breaking by these changes?
>
>
Can you sketch in more detail what your changes would be.

Say I have the files a.m b.m and c.m what would be the build process?
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