Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Arm, ArmPlatform, Crypto, Embedded: list internal headers in [Sources]

["Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:56:23AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On 07/22/19 20:47, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> > We could consider checking for these type of issues in
> > the ECC tool instead of build and make it an error from
> > ECC instead of a warning.
> 
> I'm sorry, my reply to Leif was ambiguous (or worse).
> 
> I meant that the issues underlying the specific warnings (emitted by the
> feature from TianoCore#1804) were annoying -- the reports were valid,
> and what "annoyed" me was that the INF files had not been in order (i.e.
> that they had missed some internal header files).

Whereas I'm annoyed that we now have a manual process to match up with
the automatic dependency generation.

> I wasn't annoyed at the feature itself -- if it helps developers catch
> unlisted headers as soon as incomplete INF files are introduced, then
> it's not a bad feature IMO.

I agree that the optional nature of whether to list local .h files or
not in the .inf was suboptimal. I am just not pleased with the issue
bringing this to the fore is caused by the new caching feature using a
different mechanism for tracking header file dependencies than the
primary build process.

/
    Leif