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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Makefiles -- .c and .h
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Date: 15 Nov 90 17:23:23 GMT
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  The somewhat standard solution to this problem is to create a program or
sequence of shell commands to parse the source files and determine the
dependencies on .h files, and to append those dependencies to the end of the
Makefile (or, in some versions of make, to put them in a file that is included
by the Makefile).

  There are various "makedepend" programs and scripts floating all over the
place.  The standard X11 distribution includes a makedepend, for example. 
Also, I believe there are a few Makefiles in the standard 4.3BSD distribution
that have shell dependency generators based on "cc -E" on the source files
built in.  There may even be some stuff in the comp.sources.unix or
comp.sources.misc archives to do this.

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