Added --makedepend flag to rdmd

[Graham St Jack]

Thanks very much for this - I need it for the build tool I am working on.


On 06/06/11 01:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I just added a --makedepend flag to rdmd:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools/commit/451ffed8ff985465a52124f7671494ac1d3744b4 
>
>
> It instructs rdmd to simply print to stdout the name of the input file 
> followed by a colon and then by the space-separated files that the 
> input file depends on, directly or indirectly. Example:
>
> // file test1.d;
> import test2.d;
>
> // file test2.d;
> import test3.d, mylib.test4.d;
>
> With this setup, assuming test3.d and test4.d contain no further 
> non-system imports, the command:
>
> rdmd --makedepend test1.d
>
> will print
>
> test1.d : ./test2.d ./mylib/test4.d ./test3.d
>
> This flag is intended to be useful to larger-scale build tools that 
> need to store and track module interdependencies. In the simplest use 
> case, directing the output of rdmd --makedepend (for each of a 
> project's root files) to a file and then including that file in a 
> makefile will ensure that dependencies are properly maintained.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrei


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Graham St Jack