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

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20130315185454.GB22899%apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za@localhost>,
Alan Barrett  <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
>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.

So, let's put back the changes reverted and find and fix the real
problem. I'll try my cross-build on windows tonight.

christos