wine users - May 2011 - Questions about compiling wine from Git

Hello folks. I'm new to wine and trying to understand some aspects of
compiling wine from source and local git. I've already learnt a little about
how to do regression testing, compile a specific version of Wine from local git
repository, but some things are still unclear to me.

I figured out what "make clean" and "make" commands are to
do. The first one is to delete all the binaries (e.g., object files and
executables) of current directory. The second is to turn source files to binary
files according to instructions inside of these files. I'm totally confused
about "make depend". Say, I decided to compile wine-1.1.10 from git. I
executes such a command:

Code:
git reset --hard wine-1.1.10


I ran ./configure and, in the very end, it traced:

Code:
Configure: Finished. Do 'make depend && make' to compile Wine.


then I specified that Git must set its "position" to wine-1.3.18:

Code:
git reset --hard wine-1.3.18


It traced:

Code:
Configure: Finished. Do 'make' to compile Wine.


And I found this point on make's manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Automatic-Prerequisites
Does it mean that 'make depend' is not needed any longer? If yes, then
why is it mentioned as required here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting#head-089a0426c963d62c05b11cd57ebbf3305c5053aa
and here
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting#head-05e42bb1e9c9659783d6280064efa19699cac713
and here
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting#head-3967051fd1227e1722329d82d68a1d96eba97117

hiula wrote:
> I'm totally confused about "make depend".
You supposed to use it right after configure:

Code:
./configre
meke depend
make


But, it's not necessary with Wine. It will recognize that 'make
depend' wasn't run and will run it automatically.

So in other words - you can't skip it and don't worry about it.