[Python-Dev] addressing distutils inability to track file dependencies

[Greg Ewing]

>   Extension('foo', ['foo1.c', 'foo2.c'], dependencies={'foo1.c':
> >   ['bar.h'], 'foo2.c': ['bar.h', 'bar2.h']})
>
> But this is wrong: it's not foo1.c that depends on bar.h, it's foo1.o.

It's not wrong if you read the dependency statement
as "anything which depends on foo1.c also depends
on bar.h" etc.

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