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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:35:37 +0200
From: Thomas =?utf-8?Q?Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= <thomas@t-8ch.de>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ld: write full paths to dependency-file
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On 2023-09-18 15:38:21+0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 16.09.2023 12:36, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > When relative paths are written to the dependency-file it forces the
> > users of it to run from the same directory.
> > To avoid this only write absolute paths.
> 
> Using relative paths, otoh, may allow to move build trees around. First and
> foremost the two behaviors may relevant when (not) building in the source
> tree itself. Furthermore the compiler, gcc at least, looks to also write
> relative paths when relative paths were given.

Fair enough. Let's drop this patch then.

Thomas