Re: [PATCH] Command line parsing of ls with genparse

[John Cowan]

Eric Blake-1 scripsit:

> > 2. ls.c depends ls-clp.h (the generated parser)
> >    ls-clp.h depends on ls.gp (the genparse file)
> >    ls.gp depends on ls.c because ls.gp is embedded as a comment in ls.c
> >    -> There is a circular dependency!
> 
> That seems wrong to me.  Isn't it really:

Indeed.  People tend to believe that .c files depend on .h files
that they include, but in fact they don't; the .o file depends on
both the .c file and the .h file.  See "Recursive Make Considered
Harmful" for a discussion of this.

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