Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Makefile Generator Wanted
Keywords: automatic Makefile generation, public domain?
Message-ID: <736@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 88 05:12:56 GMT
References: <2269@mergvax> <281@heurikon.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Lines: 16

>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.

The SunOS 4.0 "make" can be told to handle that; if told to do so, it
asks the C preprocessor to list include files used, and asks the linker
to list libraries used, when building programs, and builds a
".make.state" file that lists those dependencies.  It also makes targets
depend on the commands used to build them, so that if the options change
targets are rebuilt.  I don't remember whether it makes the targets
depend on the tools used to build them, although I don't think it does.

Unfortunately, you have to buy a Sun to get it (Sun doesn't sell it for
other machines), and it requires assistance from the compilers and
linker.