"D. Tweed" wrote:
>
> I think it'd probably better software engineering to split the two tasks.
> Other than a rather nasty syntax, make does what it sets out to do quite
> well: using specified dependencies and time-stamps on files to run
> `compilation-type' processes in an appropriate way. What would, as you
> say, be very nice is a tool which can be run periodically to auto-generate
> these dependencies. Especially nice would be if the source were available
> so people could have a go at adapting it to other languages, e.g., C++, or
> latex files, etc.
Um the gnu c preproccer can auto generate these dependencies with cpp
-M. I believe ghc has tools to do the same....
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Kevin Atkinson
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