tail_build fail on missing includes

[Matúš Kukan]

On 23 August 2012 22:54, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, it should work like this (simplifying):

I mean really simplifying.. or ignoring details.. so it also may become untrue.

>> avmedia links against (and depends on) sfx and sfx depends on sfx2_inc package.
>
> on face value that would not be enough: the dep on sfx _library_ does
> not prevent the compile of avmedia source... only the link
> so I suspect that if is avmedia_inc that depend on sfx2_inc  (and the
> compile of avmedia do depend on avmedia_inc

it's not only dependency for first linking sfx then avmedia.
There is also external headers target,
so before any object file of avmedia library is created, all headers
associated with sfx must be in place.

> anyhow... you are prolly right nonetheless with --merged-libs, since
> the dep avmedia_inc -> sfx2_inc is probably introduced by the use_libs
> api... which --merged-libs prolly mess with

exactly, I was never sure I've done it right, but it seemed to be
working so far.

Matus