Re: M4 and dependencies
Lorenzo Di Gregorio <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general |
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/29/2010 06:03 AM, Lorenzo Di Gregorio wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I believe there is no way to generate dependency information with M4 as we >> do in CPP with -MD. Right? >> > > Correct; this has been requested in the past, but not yet coded and > integrated. Patches welcome, if you can sign the copyright papers. > Well, probably I need some education about this stuff (papers, coding and commit guidelines). Pointers are welcome, if it they do not require much reading time ;-) But I guess right now I can just post here the patch I've made for myself and I would be happy to see the feature in the tool. The patch applies to your current development version, cloned with git. It adds a -X, --depend=FILE option which is a bit rude and just dumps whatever file is read into a dump file. Should be refined, of course.
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