Re: depcomp on system headers

[David Everly]

I've responded to Ralf's questions, but will try to answer these also:

On 8/8/06, Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:08:39AM -0600, David Everly wrote:
> > [ incorrect deps reported by me here ]
>
> I do not have much experience with depcomp, but this looks like a
> bug; one header should not depend on another one.

That was a bad cut/paste error by me.  I sent the actual file in my
reply to Ralf so there would be no mistake by me again.

> The question is who is in charge for this wrong dependency.
> Is it the depcomp script?  Or the compiler called from it?

In automake with the latest depcomp, each has a role.

> It seems that Ralf cannot reproduce your problem; can you debug it
> and point your finger to the utility which is causing this?
> Is that utility free software, ie., under our control?
> Or is it a vendor compiler?

I have replied to Ralf with an example using only HP make and aCC to
reproduce the issue.

> I hope my questions help to find the solution.
>         Stepan Kasal

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