[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Alternative way of generating dependencies

[Ivo]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 21:05, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Ivo wrote:
> > While I was catching up with the ffmpeg-devel mailinglist yesterday, I
> > stumbled upon a thread about suncc's dependency generation. As every
> > compiler seems to act slightly different, I thought about a more
> > generic way to generate dependencies and came up with the following
> > solution (see attached patch). It's not meant for direct inclusion in
> > SVN and perhaps needs some work to integrate nicely into the current
> > build system, hence the [RFC] in the subject.
> >
> > It has been tested and works correctly with the following compilers and
> > preprocessors:
> >
> > gcc -E		(GNU, versions 3.4.6 and 4.2.3)
> > icc -E		(Intel, version 10.1 20080312)
> > suncc -E	(Sun, version 5.9 Build27_2)
> > cpp.ansi	(ACK 6.0pre3)
> > pcc -E		(PCC CVS HEAD 20081028)
> > cpp		(PCC CVS HEAD 20081028)
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> It relies on the pre-processor generating #line directives, which AFAIK
> is not a requirement.  If we anyway need to rely on non-standard
> properties, we might as well use the simpler solution.

To avoid a misunderstanding here, what do you mean by simpler solution? 
Using non-standard options on a per-compiler basis or using one mkdep 
script that relies on non-standard #line directives?

--Ivo