Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
On 7/26/05, Pavel Vozenilek <pavel_vozenilek@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello Hartmut,
Wave executable could have feature for use in makefiles or makefile generators.
Wave could get this functionality too: invoking wave.exe may be faster or more convenient than running full compiler or a makedepend utility.
I think it would be a very useful feature to make it easier to create a better-portable build system. But I'm not certain if it wouldnt be better to write a new tool for this or include it in wave.
I don't know whether the build system may benefit from such a tool, even more as bjam already is capable of scanning the dependencies. But having the freedom to generate a data format fitting to whatever needs we may have is certainly an advantage. But you're probably right that we should start of with a separate tool. If it proves to be useful it may be incorporated into the wave driver executable later on as well. Regards Hartmut