Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> I'm not convinced by this use case.
> Well, my original motivation for developing this patch was that I
> often go into a subdirectory and start hacking on a .c file and then
> type make to rebuild just that subdirectory (so it's easier to see
> warnings and errors). But sometimes I would edit a relevant header
> file and then the rebuild wouldn't happen. That bugged me. Your
> mileage may vary.
Surely the answer to that is "you should be configuring with --enable-depend".
regards, tom lane