[drifting off-topic]
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> David Tweed writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> $ gcc -M main.c >>Makefile
> $ ghc -M Main.hs >>Makefile
> $ hmake -M MyProg >>Makefile
Since several people have pointed out the -M option for gcc I'd better
explain that, for reasons of no interest to Haskell users, when tackling
_C++_ it produces dependencies which are much, much worse than they could
be (at least for me).
Purely personally, I'd find it easier to have a tool that was independent
of the compiler to customise, which could also be extended to other
things, eg, latex, that don't have a -M option.
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