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Re: dependency files not from stdout
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Boehne <rboehne@ricardo-us.com> writes:
Robert> How is $depmode set?
>> It is set externally before running depcomp. The correct setting
>> for the compiler is determined by some autoconf magic.
Robert> Could you elaborate on this? or perhaps you could just point
Robert> me to the files? I need to determine where and how this is
Robert> set. I know what to do, I just can't find where to do it. ;)
The code is in m4/depend.m4.
It works by looking at the "depcomp" script and figuring out all the
possible tags (it extracts them from the case statement with sed).
Then it tries each possible tag with the current compiler until it
finds the correct one.
Does this help?
Tom
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