Before talking about formats and graphical representation, I advise you to ask if Paul agrees with this kind thing. I was personally very disappointed when he rejected the profiling patches I proposed and reworked in the form that made most sense from a practical pov, because he thought even very simple formatting of info is too much for make to do.
Here is the bug report: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40639 Eddy Petrișor Pe 14 oct. 2017 10:47 PM, <th...@vmware.com> a scris: > SF Markus Elfring writes: > > > A Makefile is basically a human-readable text file with instructions > > > on how to create executables with a compiler for example. > > > > How often do you look for a more visual representation of this content? > > > > > > > It has pretty much nothing to do with creating graphics. > > > > I got an other opinion. > > > > * Do you care to display constructed directed acyclic graphs > > by other tools? > > > > * Are you interested in further improvements for data export variants? > > I use graphviz. But I work on a tool that generates the Makefiles, > and I can have it output a graph description alongside the Makefiles. > > If you have onlky Makefiles, I can envision a few ways to generate a > graph. This is a bit manual, but you could use order-only > prerequisites to dump out the dependency tree to different 'node' > files (consider '-j'), and post process all the node files into a > bigger graph. > > all: alpha beta > > ALPHA_PREREQS = alpha.c alpha.h > BETA_PREREQS = beta.c beta.h > > alpha: $(ALPHA_PREREQS) | alpha.node > > beta: $(BETA_PREREQS) | beta.node > > alpha.node: $(ALPHA_PREREQS) > echo "$@ depends on $^" >$@ > > beta.node: $(BETA_PREREQS) > echo "$@ depends on $^" >$@ > > > You may be able to get some different inspiration from "Gnu Make > Unleashed" section in the section called 'Making and XML bill of > materials in GNU Make'. > > Essentially, you need to run Make because of the runtime processing > of the variables defined in the Makefiles, or you've got to interpose > yourself before Make and know the dependency graph already. > > thutt > -- > The gym does not appreciate 'Row Row Row Your Boat' while one is rowing. > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make >
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