[CMake] Gyp VS CMake

[Jesper Eskilson]

On 02/19/2011 06:27 PM, Michael Wild wrote:
> On 02/19/2011 06:16 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 17:16, Michael Wild<themiwi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Well, cl.exe for one doesn't do this trick. This means, you'll have to
>>> put it in your build system, and once you've done that, why should you
>>> use the compiler then? Especially, since you'll want to be consistent
>>> across platforms.
>>>
>>
>> You can use LD_PRELOAD (DLL injection on Windows) to pick up the
>> dependencies. That has the advantage of automatically working for any
>> compiler or other custom command, for any source language. Tup does this.
>>
>
> Tup was already discussed on this list quite some time ago. Using
> LD_PRELOAD to do those things makes my skin crawl. You need to intercept
> system calls AND C-library functions and have to hope that the compiler
> isn't doing some crazy stuff you haven't considered...

LD_PRELOAD isn't that bad of a hack, actually. Intercepting open(), 
read(), and possibly mmap() should cover most cases.

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Jesper Eskilson
Developer
IAR Systems