configure: replace unwarranted gcc bashing with a real explanation

Originally committed as revision 23929 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
15 years ago · a158446b28
parent 4bbb3e3a9d
commit a158446b28
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/4
+++ b/4
@ -1459,8 +1459,8 @@ host_libs='-lm'

 target_path='$(CURDIR)'

-# gcc stupidly only outputs the basename of targets with -MM, but we need the
-# full relative path for objects in subdirectories for non-recursive Make.
+# since the object filename is not given with the -MM flag, the compiler
+# is only able to print the basename, and we must add the path ourselves
 DEPEND_CMD='$(DEPCC) $(DEPFLAGS) $< | sed -e "/^\#.*/d" -e "s,^[[:space:]]*$(*F)\\.o,$(@D)/$(*F).o," > $(@:.o=.d)'
 DEPFLAGS='$(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -MM'