Re: [bug #25751] Add option to output dependency info as xml

[Tim Murphy]

Hi,

This is very interesting.  I have used emake with Electric Accelerator
and it's a pretty amazing system but I was just wondering why you need
to generate XML since emake can read gnu makefiles pretty accurately
already?

I obviously don't understand your posting properly so please don't
think I mean any offence.

One thought that I've had in the past was about how one could generate
a graph of  make database and allow people to look at all the
dependencies and rules.  One step from there would be a visual editor
for a make database so that one could, in effect, visually edit
makefiles.  This is a kind of step on the way in that it puts the
dependencies into a format that a gui could parse fairly easily.

Regards,

Tim

2009/3/2 anonymous <address@hidden>:
>
> URL:
>  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25751>
>
>                 Summary: Add option to output dependency info as xml
>                 Project: make
>            Submitted by: None
>            Submitted on: Mon 02 Mar 2009 07:15:19 PM UTC
>                Severity: 3 - Normal
>              Item Group: Enhancement
>                  Status: None
>                 Privacy: Public
>             Assigned to: None
>             Open/Closed: Open
>         Discussion Lock: Any
>       Component Version: 3.81
>        Operating System: POSIX-Based
>           Fixed Release: None
>
>    _______________________________________________________
>
> Details:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have added some code to output the dependency graph in XML.
> The output is fed to a commercial build framework (Electric Commander) to
> generate appropriate build steps. This is not to be used on the file level,
> but rather with the targets that can be built on a host farm with
> (potentially) different architectures.
>
> Please let me know if this may be of any interest to a larger audience. Here
> is a trivial example:
> <pre>
>
> --- Makefile --
> RULE = @echo making $@ from $^
>
> $(warning HELLO)
>
> all: t1 #t2 t3
>        $(RULE) \
> echo and then some > bla
>
> t1: t11 t12
>        $(RULE)
>
> t11 t12:
>        $(RULE)
>
> t2: t3
>        $(RULE)
>
> t3: t2
>        $(RULE)
> --- Makefile --
>
> --- Make Output ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <root>
>  <Goal name="/tmp/Makefile"/>
>  <Variable name="MAKEFILE_LIST"> /tmp/Makefile</Variable>
>  <Goal name="all">
>    <Prerequisite>t1</Prerequisite>
>    <Command>   @echo making all from t1 \
> echo and then some &gt; bla</Command>
>  </Goal>
>  <Goal name="t1">
>    <Prerequisite>t11</Prerequisite>
>    <Prerequisite>t12</Prerequisite>
>    <Command>   @echo making t1 from t11 t12</Command>
>  </Goal>
>  <Goal name="t11">
>    <Command>   @echo making t11 from </Command>
>  </Goal>
>  <Goal name="t12">
>    <Command>   @echo making t12 from </Command>
>  </Goal>
>  <Warning>/tmp/Makefile:3: HELLO</Warning>
> </root>
> </pre>
> --- Make Output ---
>
>
>
>
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