Re: [Dev-C++] more on Dev-C++ 4.9.3.0 beta and perfect dependency

[Hongli L. <h....@ch...>]

Luigi Santillo wrote:

> Hello Hongli Lai
>
> At 21:15 14/05/02 +0200, Hongli Lai wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 18:15, Luigi Santillo wrote:
>> > Hello list,
>> >
>> > I have only limited experience, so probably I'm missing something.
>> >
>> > I'm wondering how does Dev-C++ 4.9.3.0 find out that main.c should be
>> > recompiled, when one changes something in main.h.
>> >
>> > Anyway I tried to do some test, and the "perfect dependency" idea, 
>> seems to
>> > be not working, also I've given a look at the makefile (named
>> > "makefile.win") and did see the name of no header file (that is, no 
>> ".h"
>> > file) anywhere.
>> >
>>
>> Dev-C++ executes "gcc -MM main.c" and put the output of that into the
>> Makefile, so that make will handle dependencies.
>> However, if the output of gcc -MM contains error messages, it's output
>> will be ignored.
>>
>> You will also have to #include "main.h" into your main.c in order to
>> make this work.
>
>
> Thanks for your explanation. It is very clear.
>
> Here are the steps I followed when doing my simple testing of the new 
> dependency generation feature.
>
> 1. The code. Instead of using main.c and main.h I've used: hello.c 
> (main source), print.h and print.c
>

Hm... you're right. There's a bug in Dev-C++ parsing code.
I'm going to fix it now. The next version will include the bugfix.