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> I am not sure if this answers your question: gcc/g++ has a whole bunch
> of options with -M (like -MM, etc) The form I use is -MMD. It does:
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> target : dep1 dep2 dep3 ...
That's the form I used for my old GNU make build system - then I moved
to Python and SCons. But since I'm a Ruby person, I want to use its
'Rake' build system, but that doesn't do automatic dependancy generation
(it doesn't do a lot of things unfortunately.)
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> The lines are continued with a backslash but there are alternatives
> that don't break the lines.
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That would be useful - I'll take a look. That 'not breaking the lines'
business would actually be quite useful, allowing a nice regexp to be
written to parse it. I wonder how GCC outputs filenames that include
spaces? Perhaps it uses backslashes (Program\ Files for example).