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On 08/30/12 11:43 PM, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 01:04 AM, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 08/30/12 01:55 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> ....
>>> This isn't directly a C issue, but your Makefile doesn't reflect any
>>> dependencies on the *.h files.  For example, if you edit gauss.h and
>>> type "make", it won't rebuild anything.
>>
>> A decent make should provide a means for automating this.  Otherwise
>> where do you stop recursing up the include paths?
>
> I've used a "decent" make that was part of a configuration management
> system called ClearCase, which fully automated the tracking of
> dependencies, but by rather drastic means. Whenever clearmake executed
> the build script for a given target, it would monitor the processes that
> were executed, keeping track of ALL files that were opened during the
> build. If they were versioned files managed by ClearCase, it identified
> which version of the file was currently visible; for other files it just
> looked at the file date. The next time that the same target was built,
> it would check to see whether any of the files that had been opened the
> last time had been changed, and if so, it assumed that the build script
> had to be re-executed.
>
> One of the key things that made this work was that the make facility was
> tightly integrated with a special device driver that managed access to
> disk space; only the use of files stored on disk volumes managed by that
> driver could be detected.

I've had hours of fun with clearmake...

Sun's (d)make uses the output of the preprocessor phase of compiles to 
collate dependency information.  Rather more elegant and a lot cheaper!

-- 
Ian Collins

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Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 00:49 +0530
  Re: Request for source code review Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-08-29 19:43 +0000
    Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 18:46 +0530
  Re: Request for source code review Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-29 22:27 +0100
    Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 09:44 +0530
    Re: Request for source code review Seungbeom Kim <musiphil@bawi.org> - 2012-09-07 17:31 -0700
      Re: Request for source code review Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-08 12:41 +1200
      Re: Request for source code review Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-08 04:06 +0100
        Re: Request for source code review 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-07 23:50 -0700
          Re: Request for source code review Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-08 12:28 +0100
  Re: Request for source code review "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-08-29 22:58 +0100
    Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 09:48 +0530
  Re: Request for source code review Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-29 18:55 -0700
    Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 10:06 +0530
      Re: Request for source code review lovecreatesbeauty <lovecreatesbeauty@gmail.com> - 2012-08-29 21:59 -0700
        Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 18:51 +0530
      Re: Request for source code review Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-30 13:44 +0100
        Re: Request for source code review lovecreatesbeauty <lovecreatesbeauty@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 03:24 -0700
    Re: Request for source code review Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-30 17:04 +1200
      Re: Request for source code review James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-08-30 07:43 -0400
        Re: Request for source code review Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-31 20:43 +1200
          Re: Request for source code review Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-08-31 21:18 -0500
            Re: Request for source code review James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-09-01 20:34 -0400
              Re: Request for source code review Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-09-01 20:45 -0500
                Re: Request for source code review Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-09-02 15:11 +1200
                Re: Request for source code review Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-09-01 23:43 -0500
      Re: Request for source code review Adrian Ratnapala <raka@scooter.fritz.box> - 2012-09-01 07:40 +0000
  Re: Request for source code review Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-08-30 05:10 -0700
    Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-30 19:14 +0530
      Re: Request for source code review Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-30 16:42 +0100
  Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 19:44 +0530
  Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 20:03 +0530
    Re: Request for source code review Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-31 13:34 -0700
      Re: Request for source code review Adrian Ratnapala <raka@scooter.fritz.box> - 2012-09-01 07:49 +0000
        Re: Request for source code review Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-01 02:53 -0700
    Re: Request for source code review pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-08-31 21:15 -0400
  Re: Request for source code review Jan Kuiken <jan.kuiken@quicknet.nl> - 2012-08-31 19:55 +0200
    Re: Request for source code review Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com> - 2012-09-02 15:39 +0530
      Re: Request for source code review Jan Kuiken <jan.kuiken@quicknet.nl> - 2012-09-02 19:57 +0200

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