Re: CVS commit: src/tools/host-mkdep

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> I still don't understand how a missing include does not cause 
> an error in the compilation phase, but it can be ignore in the 
> dependency generation.

tools/compat creates a dummy include file, if necessary.  This is 
good enough for the compilation phase.  I am not sure why it's not 
good enough for host-mkdep, but two ideas spring to mind:  perhaps 
host-mkdep is run before the dummy include file is created, or 
perhaps host-mkdep is run without the -I flags that would allow it 
to find the dummy include file.

--apb (Alan Barrett)