C + Make

[Andrew Hume]

In article <1326 at mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA>, userAKDU at mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) writes:
~ >  <<stuff deleted>>
~ >BTW, why are the components called "dependents"?  Seems to me that the
~ >target is the dependent because it depends on the components.
~ >
~ I find the terminology confusing too. Maybe they use "dependent"
~ because there is no such word as "dependee". Or maybe because
~ "dependable" would mislead programmers into thinking the code in
~ their "dependables" must be OK.
~  


in mk, the terminology used is prerequisites, mostly to avoid
these problems.
	andrew