Re: [PATCH 0/3] Makefile: make "sparse" and "hdr-check" non-.PHONY

Ramsay Jones [off-list ref] writes:

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At the heart of my unease is dependencies (or rather the lack) for
the 'synthetic object files' *.hco and *.sp. (Also, the addition
of even more 'shrapnel' to the build directories - I wrote a patch
to remove the useless *.hcc files just after commit b503a2d515e was
included, but didn't get around to submitting it).

I don't consider them shrapnel if they're holding useful results. :)

Heh, yes I am a bit of a curmudgeon! :D

We do not necessarily have to have these files immediately next to
the corresponding source file.

For example, we could give .shrapnel/ hierarchy to *.hco and *.sp
files, so that for revision.c and compat/bswap.h, we'd create
.shrapnel/revision.sp and .shrapnel/compat/bswap.hco files that will
not be so cluttering ;-)