Eclipse CDT not building project on header file change

Question

I have Eclipse Platform 3.7.2 and CDT 8.0.2.

When I want to do \'Build All\' headers from other workspace projects are not counted as dependencies, and nothing is re

Answer 1

there exists a bug for this issue: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=375800

And a working and neat workaround (The orignal requester knows this already). So I just crosslink to the actual answer :) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=375800#c11

All credits to Krzysztof Czaińsk

In your project c or c++ compiler settings add -MT ${OUTPUT_PREFIX}${OUTPUT} after the flags:

${COMMAND} ${FLAGS} -MT ${OUTPUT_PREFIX}${OUTPUT} ${OUTPUT_FLAG} ${OUTPUT_PREFIX}${OUTPUT} ${INPUTS}

This will create the correct .d-files

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Addition: The workaround has one side-effect. After a clean make all always runs twice before it says nothing to do. Still better than not compiling after a change ;-)