[llvm-dev] Ninja behavior that befuddles me

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via llvm-dev]

This morning I did a build with Ninja, which mysteriously decided to rebuild the entire system (something about a deps stamp being corrupted). When it was done, I had a new llvm-tblgen.exe, but all the target .inc files were old. Hmm. So I touched one of the TableGen source files and did another build. Again, a new llvm-tblgen.exe but no new .inc files. I do, however, have a new .inc.d file corresponding to each .inc file.

I notice that those .inc.d files do not list llvm-tblgen.exe as a dependency. Is that why the .inc files aren't rebuilt? If so, what is the trick?

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