Re: How to resolve implicit dependencies

[Tony Theodore]

> On 15 Jul 2016, at 01:46, Adrian Muresan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
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> 
> What I need is an OS utility that will detect every read/write action my 
> build performs AND the ability to attribute
> 
> those filesystem-level operations to the makefile target that performs them.

Not exactly an OS utility, but Git can track filesystem operations, attribute 
them to a target, and help with re-ordering builds to find undeclared 
dependencies. The basic idea is to build each target in a branch with it’s 
declared dependencies as parents. Then run a second pass with undeclared 
targets `checked out` prior to build and compare the results[1].

A simpler first pass could be to simply build each target with a commit and 
compare the files changed between commits.

Cheers,

Tony


[1] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/1111