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Re: Make autoconf and automake generate compile_commands.json for integr


From: Doron Behar
Subject: Re: Make autoconf and automake generate compile_commands.json for integration with other build systems and IDEs
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 15:25:47 +0300
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:47:20PM +0300, Basin Ilya wrote:
> Hi Doron.
> 
> The list of source files and resulting object files isn't known until `make` 
> is launched. The IDE should be ready to support a constantly updating 
> compilation database.
> 
> It is possible to create a wrapper program for GNU Make that will do the job. 
> It won't be part of Make, you will have to install it separately. An IDE can 
> be configured to run the wrapper instead of the real Make binary.
> 
> The wrapper can handle the shell commands executed by Make. For instance, it 
> can pass these commands and other information to another component that will 
> update the compilation database.
> 
> I have a script that stores the needed info in a binary format, but somebody 
> has to write at least the part that reads the binary data from the standard 
> input and converts it to JSON.

I wonder how this script compares to the tool I mentioned called
`scan-build` (https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/1014). Could you
please share it with us?



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