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Re: cpplib: what is a system header? [HEAD]
Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> writes:
> You may find the recent work done on dependency generation removes a lot
> of the fiddliness. Older versions of GCC than CVS had rather bizarre
> semantics, which tended to mean you needed to do a lot of sed hackery on
> the result.
> With stuff like -MF, -MP, -MQ and -MT that have been added, and since
> the defaulting has changed to be more sensible, GCC 3.0 and onwards may
> be easier.
> Not that that helps if the user has GCC 2.95.2 or somesuch, but it might
> help you as a maintainer anyway.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree; the new dependency generation stuff looks
*much* better. Thank you very much, to everyone who worked on it and
tested it! (I've in general been extremely impressed by how GCC 3.0 is
shaping up and am thrilled at the work that's being done.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>