Andy Glew’s written a piece over on his blog opining about the need for automatic discovery of dependencies and some applications of having that data. Understanding dependencies is a requirement for any (reasonable) build tool, and all build tools allow the specification of dependencies – even shell script: specifying a serial order lets you define [Read More →]

One of the well known problems with make is that it’s a real nuisance to completely specify all the dependencies in your project. For example, if you have a file main.c in your project, you probably already have a dependency like this in your makefile: main.o: main.c However, if main.c includes logging.h, you technically need [Read More →]