preprocessor/6521: -MG creates dependency with wrong path
Neil Booth
neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Tue May 7 23:36:00 GMT 2002
Robert Spier wrote:-
> The only sensible patch I can think of is to remove this odd
> functionality entirely.
>
> The below patch unifies handling for system and non-system include
> files and removes the special case. It only affects -MG, and brings
> it in line with the documentation:
>
> -MG When used with -M or -MM, -MG says to treat missing
> header files as generated files and assume they live
> in the same directory as the source file. It sup?
> presses preprocessed output, as a missing header file
> is ordinarily an error.
On further reflection, I don't think this makes any sense.
Files included with <> do not search the current directory,
so assuming the file lies there is obviously bogus.
The sensible thing to do, IMO, is to step down the <> include
path until the resulting path, when appending the file name,
exists, and to fail if all such paths don't exist.
Neil.
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