[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk make clean and make looping?? (Possible solution)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robert Webb
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:32 PM
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk make clean and make looping??
> 
> 
> Ok, so I ma having a bad day. First forgot to install the 
> kernel-headers in Debian and could not get Zaptel to compile. 
> Got help on that and it compiled fine.
> 
> I then went into my /usr/src/asterisk directory and issued a 
> make clean followed by a make install. Well, apparently I 
> also forgot to install termcap support so the make install bombed.
> 
> So I installed the needed programs and then issued a make 
> clean to start over. Now with the make clean, and even a 
> make, I get the below which just keeps looping over and
> over:
> 
> rm -f include/asterisk/version.h.tmp
> build_tools/mkdep  -pipe  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -g  -Iinclude 
> -I../include -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE  -O6 -march=i686 
> -DZAPTEL_OPTIMIZATIONS         -fomit-frame-pointer  acl.c 
> aescrypt.c aeskey.c aestab.c alaw.c app.c asterisk.c 
> ast_expr2.c ast_expr2f.c astmm.c autoservice.c callerid.c 
> cdr.c channel.c chanvars.c cli.c config.c cryptostub.c db.c 
> devicestate.c dlfcn.c dns.c dnsmgr.c dsp.c enum.c file.c 
> frame.c fskmodem.c image.c indications.c io.c jitterbuf.c 
> loader.c logger.c manager.c md5.c muted.c netsock.c pbx.c 
> plc.c poll.c privacy.c rtp.c say.c sched.c slinfactory.c 
> srv.c strcompat.c tdd.c term.c translate.c ulaw.c utils.c 
> build_tools/make_version_h > include/asterisk/version.h.tmp 
> if cmp -s include/asterisk/version.h.tmp 
> include/asterisk/version.h ; then echo; else \
>          mv include/asterisk/version.h.tmp 
> include/asterisk/version.h ; \ fi
> 
> 
> Is this a bug in the make code or do I just need a new brain 
> today. Which the latter is VERY possible.
> 
> Robert


Ok, after getting some help understanding Makefile overon the gnu make
list, I along with some help from a user over there have determinesd
that the following section in the Makefile is causing the problem:

ifneq ($(wildcard .depend),)
  include .depend
Endif

If I comment out the above section, everything seems to run as it
should. I can make install, break out of it before it is finished, then
make clean and all other make commands seem to work. If I let make
install complete, asterisk starts and runs normally.

Can someone take a look at the Makefile and try to help me understand
the purpose of the above code that I commented out??

Would be greatly appreciated.

Robert Webb