[ILUG] un-Xed `makedepend'-ish tool for *ix (and Cygwin?)?

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:21:27 +0000
  | From: P at draigBrady.com
  | 
  | Brian Foster wrote:
  | >   does anyone happen to know of a makedepend(1)-like tool
  | >  for *ix (plus, ideally, Cygwin), which is not buried deep
  | >  in the guts of the X11 development system?  [ ... ]
  | >   the gcc(1) or GNU cpp(1) `-M' option family may or may
  | >  not be an acceptable alternative.
  | 
  | I've used cpp -MM with good results. Dependency stuff can be
  | trick though.  Here's part of one of my Makefiles,  [ ... ]

 thanks Pádraig.

  unfortunately, what you illustrated won't work
 at all for my situation for several technical
 reasons; however, it may be adaptable.

  we are currently using one of the `-M' options
 (I do not recall which one right now), but in an
 extremely _stupid_ manner:  e.g., your example
 computes the dependencies for multiple files in
 c.8 lines and c.5 processes.  but the current
 mess (and that is putting it lightly!) I am
 trying to straighten out uses c.100 lines of
 (badly written) bash(1), an uncertain number
 of temporary files, and over 30 processes to
 compute the dependencies of just _one_ file!  ;-(
 and the core is `cpp -Msomething'!  ;-\   yeech.

cheers!
	-blf-
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