Re: Parsing Makefile.am and configure.in

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Biswa" == Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <address@hidden> writes:

Biswa> Is there any available library which parses
Biswa> Makefile.am/configure.in recursively and generates a single
Biswa> consolidated project structure (either as an XML file for as an
Biswa> in-memory data structure) for reading/writing ?

Not that I know of.

Biswa> http://www.angelfire.com/linux/biswapesh/images/project_manager.gif

That's interesting.

Does KDevelop have something like this?
They generate Makefile.am, so presumably they have some mechanism for
reading them too.

Biswa> If such a library is unavailable, would anyone be interested in
Biswa> joining me in writing one (I have a *very* basic infrastructure
Biswa> in place, as you can see from the shot) ?

If you don't mind GPL Perl code, you could probably reuse code from
automake itself.  I'm sure we'd welcome clean changes to make the code
more modular and reusable.

Tom