In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> I meant that in the context of FPC, which works out dependencies etc. on
> the fly, one can't arbitrarily hook in an external preprocessor. I meant
> that it wasn't another stage in a makefile because FPC doesn't (can't)
> use makefiles- for reasons that you explained yesterday.
That's technically impossible, since how the preprocessor influences
dependencies is not know to the compiler.
It is the same discussion as the make -j bit. If you want a C compiling
model, don't use units and use {$i} and manually link it together, like in C.
I prefer the unit model though.
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