[cfe-dev] [RFC] Embedding compilation database info in object files.

Sean Silva silvas at purdue.edu
Mon Jul 22 15:14:56 PDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Joshua Cranmer <pidgeot18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One other concern that I don't think I explicitly mentioned is the fact
> that build systems can produce generated code (particularly headers are the
> most pernicious ones) that would need to be available to be able to compile
> the rest of the code. For example, configure generates a config.h that is
> included by every file. For a build system that only allows you access to
> the final product, there is no way you can make that compilation database
> work.
>

Your other response also tuned me into this issue, which I think that none
of the systems proposed in this thread deals with satisfactorily. We should
probably have a separate discussion on the topic.

-- Sean Silva
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