Circular relationships between .gyp files should be errors

build/gyp_chromium

 #!/usr/bin/python
 
 # Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # This script is wrapper for Chromium that adds some support for how GYP
 # is invoked by Chromium beyond what can be done in the gclient hooks.
 
 import glob
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     gyp_file = os.environ.get('CHROMIUM_GYP_FILE')
     if gyp_file:
       # Note that CHROMIUM_GYP_FILE values can't have backslashes as
       # path separators even on Windows due to the use of shlex.split().
       args.extend(shlex.split(gyp_file))
     else:
       args.append(os.path.join(script_dir, 'all.gyp'))
 
   args.extend(['-I' + i for i in additional_include_files(args)])
 
+  # There shouldn't be a circular dependency relationship between .gyp files,
+  # but in Chromium's .gyp files, on non-Mac platforms, circular relationships
+  # currently exist.  The check for circular dependencies is currently
+  # bypassed on other platforms, but is left enabled on the Mac, where a
+  # violation of the rule causes Xcode to misbehave badly.
+  # TODO(mark): Find and kill remaining circular dependencies, and remove this
+  # option.  http://crbug.com/35878.
+  if sys.platform != 'darwin':
+    args.append('--no-circular-check')
+
   print 'Updating projects from gyp files...'
   sys.stdout.flush()
 
   # Off we go...
   sys.exit(gyp.main(args))