Re: add option to generate dependency graph

[Lynn Lin]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Luke Shumaker <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:02 +0800, Lynn Lin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 23:45 -0400, Luke Shumaker wrote:
>> > Thank you for showing me graphviz, it's pretty neat!
>>
>> bitbake (http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/bitbake/) is a
>> make-alike build tool with the special focus of distributions and
>> packages for embedded Linux cross compilation,it provide -g option
>>
>> -g, --graphviz        emit the dependency trees of the specified packages in
>>                         the dot syntax
>>
>> it's great!
>
> Thanks, I'll try it out!
 if the -g option is done,I will be very happy with it:)

>> > The attached patch adds the ``-g, --graph'' options to make; it will
>> > spit out a graphviz file to stdout. (The patch is against the 3.82
>> > release)
>>
>> I test the patch,it's great although it has bug.
>
> What bug?

I compile cgit project with your patch

    MM ui-tree.d
    MM ui-tag.d
    MM ui-summary.d
    MM ui-stats.d
    MM ui-ssdiff.d
    MM ui-snapshot.d
    MM ui-shared.d
    MM ui-repolist.d
    MM ui-refs.d
    MM ui-plain.d
    MM ui-patch.d
    MM ui-log.d
    MM ui-diff.d
    MM ui-commit.d
    MM ui-clone.d
    MM ui-blob.d
    MM ui-atom.d
    MM shared.d
    MM scan-tree.d
    MM parsing.d
    MM html.d
    MM configfile.d
    MM cmd.d
    MM cgit.d
    MM cache.d
CGIT_VERSION = v0.8.3.3-82-gaec9
digraph make11225 {
  "ui-blob.d" [];
  "ui-blob.d" -> "ui-blob.c";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "ui-blob.c";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "cgit.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/git-compat-util.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/compat/bswap.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/cache.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/git-compat-util.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/strbuf.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/hash.h";
  "ui-blob.d" -> "git/advice.h";
...


obviously the "MM line" doesn't follow dot format
> ~ LukeShu
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