"nedbrek" <nedb...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladi...@thecybershadow.net> wrote in message
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>> 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...
>
Just as a few examples:
mixin("import foo.bar;");
// or
enum a = "import ";
enum b = "foo.";
enum c = "bar;";
mixin(a~b~c);
// or
static if(/+some fancy condition here+/)
import foo.bar;
