Win32 auto dependency checking/creation for GNU make?

[Miller, Bryan]

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:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:43 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> 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:address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:04 PM
> > To: 'address@hidden'
> > 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