Re: [jamboost] Dependencies & generated headers

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-11 08:07:13

From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>

> David Abrahams wrote:
> > From: "Vladimir Prus" <ghost_at_[hidden]>
> >
> >>>I understand.
> >>
> >>Do you agree we have to use the scheme I've described?
> >
> >
> > Well I'm still not sure I understand the scheme, but I think
*something*
> > like that is needed. I think it might be better if the user had to be
> > explicit about dependencies on generated headers.
>
> As a user, I'd be bored to specify dependencies on generated headers. Do
> you have any particular way in mind?
>
> To clarify my proposition: when dependencies are scanned you know
> 1. Main target, which dependency graph contains the target been scanned
> 2. Complete dependency graph for that main target.
>
> So, if you have a header "a_parser.h" you check if the dependency graph
> has a target of the same name. If it does, you add a dependency to it.

That rule seems a little too trivial to be correct. Don't you care what the
#include path is?
What if that particular a_parser.h wasn't intended?

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