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From: lampman@heurikon.UUCP (Ray Lampman)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Makefile Generator Wanted
Summary: Me too, but wait, there's more ...
Keywords: automatic Makefile generation, public domain?
Message-ID: <281@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 18:35:49 GMT
References: <2269@mergvax>
Reply-To: lampman@heurikon.UUCP (Ray Lampman)
Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted
Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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| In article <2269@mergvax> rkxyv@mergvax (Rob Kedoin) writes:
| I am looking for a tool that will somehow create/verify a Makefile
| so I can be confident that no dependencies have been forgotten.
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I've been looking for a tool like this for some time, now.  This tool should
verify dependency on the Makefile itself and the tools that the make program
invokes to create target files.  For example, an object file is dependent, not
only on its source and included header files, but also on the compiler and the
options specified in the Makefile.  Change any one of these and you've changed
the object.  I would like to hear about any tool that can verify that _ALL_
dependencies have been included correctly.  By the way, how do you efficiently
archive an entire development environment?
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