[Bug other/84351] Provide dependency information also when linking

[rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84351

Richard Biener  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
 Resolution|--- |MOVED

--- Comment #2 from Richard Biener  ---
Please file on sourceware.org/bugzilla

[Bug other/84351] Provide dependency information also when linking

[redi at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84351

--- Comment #1 from Jonathan Wakely  ---
(In reply to jpakkane from comment #0)
> If linking supported generating dependency files like -M does for source
> compilations, this would not be a problem and

... and?

The main problem is that GCC doesn't do the linking, it just calls the linker.
GCC is not involved in resolving -lmydep to a file on disk, that's the linker.

So the feature would have to be added to the linker, not to GCC.