[cmake-developers] ninja bug

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 21 April 2012, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> On 19.04.2012 16:21, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> > On 4/19/2012 4:16 AM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
> >> That's possible indeed. There are discussions whether to support all
> >> compilers deps file formats inside Ninja or in another program (see
> >> the deplist branch and discussion thread). The deplist branch is an
> >> attempt to provide a common format to store the dependencies in a
> >> fast-to-parse format.
> >> 
> >> Currently, it is not merged yet and Ninja still relies on its own
> >> parser which is probably not bug free and does not have all the
> >> work-around required for all compilers versions.
> > 
> > So, should I post this issue on the ninja list?
> > 
> > 
> > I am also wondering if we could create a cmake depend generator for
> > ninja.  Then if the compiler did not support -M in a format that ninja
> > likes, it could fall back to the cmake version.
> 
> Does this mean cmake could preprocess C/C++ files and detect all #includes
> while using the search paths which are also passed to the compiler?

That's what cmake does for the makefile-generators.

Alex