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From: ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman, Master Byte Software)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Makefile Maker
Message-ID: <190@fxgrp.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 00:27:05 GMT
References: <176@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: fxgrp!ljz@ames.arpa (Lloyd Zusman, Master Byte Software)
Followup-To: <176@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Organization: FX Development Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: make Makefile

In article <176@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:

>The problem with make -- well ONE of the problems with make -- is that it
>requires the user to specify the dependencies.  What you really want
>is something that keeps up with the dependencies automatically as they
>change.
> ...
>We will need a program which removes dependency spec's from a Makefile,
>and one which creates new dependency spec's.
> ...

There already is a program that lets you do this.  It is called "mkmf"
and I have mentioned it in an earlier posting.  I have determined that
it indeed is in the public domain.  After mentioning it here I got
such an overwhelming number of requests for it that yesterday I mailed
it to the moderators of comp.sources.misc and comp.sources.unix ...
I'm hoping it will be posted in one or the other of these newsgroups
in the near future.

This program takes a makefile as input and produces a new one as
output.  It automatically recalculates all the dependencies every time
it is run, removes the old dependencies from the makefile, and writes
the new ones therein.  We use it that way here at our installation and
we are quite pleased with it.

Look for it soon in comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc.


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