We have discovered the following problem in our work on skia
(http://code.google.com/p/skia/):
When generating the .vcxproj files (with GYP_MSVS_VERSION=2010), some source
paths are "rerelativized" (modified to be relative to the supposed current
working directory) more than once, so that the path ends up being erroneous.
Unfortunately, I cannot give steps to reproduce the problem except within the
Skia code. I will try to add a test that exercises this within the gyp tests,
and ultimately submit a fix...
In the meanwhile, here's how to reproduce within skia, on Windows (not cygwin):
svn co -r 1847 http://skia.googlecode.com/svn/trunk skia-read-only
cd skia-read-only
make tests
You will see a bunch of errors about missing header files. If you open up one
of the .vcxproj files (e.g., skia-read-only\out\gyp\tests.vcxproj), you will
see that the paths in AdditionalIncludeDirectories are invalid (many of the
directory paths are at the wrong depth, with too many "../")
In http://codereview.chromium.org/7210040/ , I have created a new
msvs_abspath_output generator_flag. When set, gyp outputs absolute paths
rather than relative paths, to avoid this bug; by default, the old behavior
remains in place.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by epoger@google.com on 13 Jul 2011 at 5:56
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
epoger@google.comon 13 Jul 2011 at 5:56