The paper on auto dependency checking on Paul's site is for U**X and not for Win32. Since this client is running this in a secure site I want to avoid getting waivers to install things like sed and makedepends.
Bryan > -----Original Message----- > From: Miller, Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:43 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: auto dependency checking/creation for GNU make? > > > A caveat - when I first write this email I was not able to reach > www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/. I now am reading Paul's treatise on auto > dependency generation. I am still interested in any advice/recommendations > anyone wishes to make. > > Cheers, > Bryan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Miller, Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:04 PM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: auto dependency checking/creation for GNU make? > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I have a client that, despite my strong advice to the contrary, wants a make > > system that will simply build every file in the source tree (in this case > > inside ClearCase). Instead of maintaining a list of dependencies in the > > makefile they simply want to add a set of files to the source tree and be > > able to type "make all". > > > > Has anyone out there done anything like this natively in make without having > > to run a bunch of foreach iterations? Their expectations are that every .c > > or .s file will yield a .o file and all the .o files will be used to > > generate one large .a file. > > > > I created one makefile that used $(wildcard) constructs to generate a list > > of dependencies but it is a real hack and at times causes buffer overflows > > since the list is so long: > > > > find_c_files = $(wildcard $(dir)/*.c) > > find_s_files = $(wildcard $(dir)/*.s) > > > > # Find all the *.c and *.s files in the base directories. > > c_files = $(foreach dir, $(dirs), $(find_c_files)) > > s_files = $(foreach dir, $(dirs), $(find_s_files)) > > > > # Take list of *.c & *.s files and make list of *.o files. > > c_objects = $(patsubst %.c,%.o, $(c_files)) > > s_objects = $(patsubst %.s,%.o, $(s_files)) > > > > Thanks much in advance, > > Bryan > > -- > > Bryan Miller > > Sr. Staff Software Engineer > > Rational Software Corporation _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
