wow, makedepend makes makefile generation a breeze :)

John

--- Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com>
wrote:

> Peter Todd wrote:
> 
> > John Temples wrote:
> >> "makedepend" will generate a dependency list and
> insert it into your
> >> makefile, and it handles cases like you mention
> above (without
> >> modifying timestamps).  This requires you to
> manually run makedepend
> >> when you change your dependencies, but it doesn't
> require you to
> >> manage the dependencies yourself.
> 
> Thanks, that looks like a helpful tool. It seems to
> have a pitfall (header
> file dependencies get parsed only once, and when
> they depend on
> preprocessor definitions that change with the file
> where they are included,
> the later dependencies may be wrong), but that's
> probably a not so common
> case. I'll see how that works out...
> 
> I'd still like a make tool that can handle recursive
> dependencies without a
> build step in between.
> 
> 
> > That said, on all my PIC projects to date I don't
> even use dependencies.
> > Everything is compiled into one static image.
> Microprocessor code is so
> > small, and modern computers are so fast, it's not
> even worth the bother
> > I find for my projects. We're not talking about
> the millions of lines of
> > code in the Linux kernel after all!
> 
> Yes, but without dependencies, there's no need for
> make at all. Without
> them, the makefile collapses usually to a single
> line batch file. OTOH,
> there are quite a number of projects with
> complexities between the Linux
> kernel and trivial projects that only need a couple
> files. I find that most
> of my embedded projects are in that space between :)
> 
> Gerhard
> 
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