In article <[email protected]>, Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> I still don't understand how a missing include does not cause >> an error in the compilation phase, but it can be ignore in the >> dependency generation. > >tools/compat creates a dummy include file, if necessary. This is >good enough for the compilation phase. I am not sure why it's not >good enough for host-mkdep, but two ideas spring to mind: perhaps >host-mkdep is run before the dummy include file is created, or >perhaps host-mkdep is run without the -I flags that would allow it >to find the dummy include file.
So, let's put back the changes reverted and find and fix the real problem. I'll try my cross-build on windows tonight. christos
