[Omake] Re: preprocessor for computing dependencies

[malc]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Thomas Nagy wrote:

>> What's wrong with gcc -M?
>
> :-)
>
> * gcc -M does not output dependencies it cannot find
> in CPPPATH (like headers that need to be created by
> the build tool)
> * not everyone uses gcc
> * the gcc output is not really easy to parse
> * gcc is quite slow (not going to the system includes
> for computing dependencies is enough in 99% of the
> cases)

Just in case you didn't know. -MG will treat absent headers
as the generated ones.

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