[Scons-users] "no dependency generated" when warnings are turned on

[Bill Deegan]

Mats,

In general all warnings of import are on by default, others are mainly
informational.
Some are only provided as flags to allow disabling them.

For example there used to be --debug=tree which became --tree=<tree option>

-Bill

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> actually, turned on --warn=all to see if it would uncover anything being
> glossed over. (the project does the same for source code, fwiw).
>
>
> On July 5, 2017 5:42:48 PM MDT, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Mats,
>>
>> Likely these are file which don't include any files.
>>
>> What were you looking for that lead you to turn on --warn=dependency ?
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So turning on the dependency warning setting, got lots (10,000 according
>>> to a grep of a suddenly huge build log) of warnings of the form
>>>
>>> scons: warning: No dependency generated for file: blah (included from:
>>> source file in the tree)
>>>
>>> after a quick sampling, these all look like they are files external to
>>> the project, specifically system headers.
>>>
>>> I'm presuming this is just ignorable, and perhaps the reason why
>>> dependency warnings are off by default?
>>>
>>> or does this indicate something dubious in the project setup?
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