Re: Visualisation of make files as graphs

[Tim Murphy]

This is generally a hopeless thing to do because the graphs become enormous spiderwebs.

Gephi is good enough to do large makefiles without crashing or slowing down to a stop.

  You can use "gmake --print-database -f Makefile" and then write a script  to convert that into .dot format which gephi will load up for you.

Then you can feast your eyes on something like this:

http://oceans.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/hair_ball.jpg

It might offer you some insight into a small makefile though.

For big makefiles some further degree of analysis is needed to try to simplify the picture.

Regards,

Tim

On 12 January 2015 at 17:04, SF Markus Elfring <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

Make files can grow to a size (with all their build rules
and various script code) where it becomes harder to follow
the involved data processing structures.

Do you know any software tools which provide graphical
visualisations for work flows that were developed with
the make file syntax?

Regards,
Markus

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