Re: determining prerequisite & dependent targets

[Paul D. Smith]

%% gk <address@hidden> writes:

  g> I need to be able to determine the list of prerequisites, or dependent 
  g> targets, for any given target.

  g> I would like to know if there is a better way

There is no other way that I can think of.

  g> or how difficult would it be to add such a query feature to make,
  g> via command line options or any other tricks for accessing makes
  g> internal database directly.  Thanks.

If such a feature were added most likely it would be considered part of
the integration of a scripting language (Guile).

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