[cmake-developers] ninja bug

[Peter Kümmel]

On 21.04.2012 13:24, David Cole wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Peter Kümmel <syntheticpp at gmx.net <mailto:syntheticpp at gmx.net>> wrote:
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>     On 19.04.2012 16:21, Bill Hoffman wrote:
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>         On 4/19/2012 4:16 AM, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
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>             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.
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>             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.
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>         So, should I post this issue on the ninja list?
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>         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.
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>     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?
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>     Peter

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> Yes.
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> It does do that to generate the dependencies used for the Makefile generators.
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> It's imperfect, but close enough for most purposes.
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Great! Is this the step which will be dropped when the /fast target is build?

Peter