On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 08:57:37 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Boeckel via Gcc-patches <gcc-patc...@gcc.gnu.org> writes: > > Ben> - `-fdeps-file=` specifies the path to the file to write the format to. > > I don't know how this output is intended to be used, but one mistake > made with the other dependency-tracking options was that the output file > isn't created atomically. As a consequence, Makefiles normally have to > work around this to be robust. If that's a possible issue here then it > would be best to handle it in this patch.
I don't think there'll be any race here because it's the "output" of the rule as far as the build graph is concerned. It's also JSON, so anything reading it "early" will get a partial object and easily detect "something went wrong". And for clarity, the `-o` flag used in CMake with this is just a side effect of the `-E` mechanism used and is completely ignored in the CMake usage of this. --Ben
