[GCC-XML] Relative paths in GCCXML

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Sep 25 18:01:22 EDT 2007


Chris Friedemann wrote:
> Sorry, I guess I should have been more clear.
>  
> What I'm confused as to if I run gcc-xml on a .h file that has an
> include preproccesor definition that contains a fully specified path like:
>  
> #include "C:\dev\dirA\dirB\dirC\header.h"
>  
> then it works without using the -I flag at all.  
>  
> However, if the path is not fully specified like this:
>  
> #include "../../dirC/header.h"
>  
> then I get the "could not find file header.h" error message.  Neither of
> these examples use the -I flag, but one works and the other doesn't. 
> I'm just curious as to the reason why.

Where is the input .h file in your example?  Does the
"../../dirC/header.h" file exist relative to its location?  If not, then
"../../dirC/header.h" must exist relative to a directory specified with
-I.  This is standard on all compilers.

-Brad



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