2008/11/3 Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:58 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, so I'm posting here before I open
>> up a BZ.
>
> makedepend is part of the imake package in Fedora. imake is - shall we
> say - under a policy of malign neglect by upstream. Rightly so, in my
> opinion, but makedepend is legitimately useful on its own.
>
> I think the only semi-serious problem with teaching makedepend more
> about gcc is what to do in the face of multiple gcc versions. We could
> certainly make makedepend search %{_libdir}/gcc/`gcc -dumpmachine`/`gcc
> -dumpversion`/include but that only works if you're building with gcc
> and not say compat-gcc34. Maybe inherit $CC from the environment and
> use that? Who knows.
>
> Ideally you'd just use gccmakedep instead, but it doesn't support the
> same set of options as makedepend so that may not be an option.
>
> I'd take a patch, but that's about the extent to which I care about
> being a build tools maintainer.
I have a patch somewhere that adds a --with-extra-include build option
for makedepend. It still means you have to rebuild makedepend whenever
gcc gets a major upgrade, but that was probably happening anyway. If
that sounds useful, I'll go locate it.
--
Dan
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