> I need to support (GASP) *auto-generated* source files. Auto-generated 
> *header* files are NOT AN OPTION: the bloody wanker will fail while 
> generating dependencies of a not-yet-generated file - NO WAY to explain it 

>From gcc(1) manpage:

       -MG In conjunction with an option such as -M requesting dependency
           generation, -MG assumes missing header files are generated files
           and adds them to the dependency list without raising an error.

While hating make is often well-founded, perhaps you should be hating your
in-house scripts and programs instead?

Especially if they write errors to stdout instead of stderr - that surely is
an entire class of hate all of its own.

.Guy

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