"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladi...@thecybershadow.net> wrote in message news:op.vpjlwrletuz...@cybershadow.mshome.net... > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:09:11 +0200, Austin Hastings <ah0801...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> On 1/19/2011 12:50 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > > Actually, you're probably right here. To my knowledge, there are only two > build tools that take advantage of the -deps compiler option - rdmd and > xfbuild. Older ones were forced to parse the source files - rebuild even > used DMD's frontend for that. There's also a relatively new tool (dbuild > oslt?) which generates makefiles.
Can someone tell me the corner case that requires a build tool to parse the whole source file? My make helper is awk, it just looks for the "import" and strips out the needed info... Thanks, Ned
