Dependency tracer

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Sep 27 06:57:40 UTC 2014


On 27 September 2014 00:04, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a good tool that can trace source dependencies given a tree
> containing various directories of source files?
>
> I have a project that has make files with no dependency targets and
> would like to be able to take a particular header and see all the
> files that depend on it, directly or indirectly, and vice-versa.
>
> i'm no make expert, but the way our makefiles are built they are
> virtually incomprehensible without a guru and sometimes even then.

Are you talking about dependencies between packages or are you talking
about a particular programming language (C, java, or whatever), or
some other sort of dependency?

Colin




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