On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:19:29PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > Java requires a dependency model beyond what make can easily > support: > - a "makedepend" program for Java pretty much has to be a full > parser, to notice that any reference to some class Foo makes > This.class depend on .../com/blarfl/Foo.class. There was > such a program kicking around at one point, called javadeps > (aka jdeps). But even that's unpleasant in practice; Java's > dependencies change a lot more frequently than do #include's > in C, so you have to "make depend" far too often. > > - Java can easily have circular dependencies; they require all > .java files in the circle to be compiled by the same compiler > process
IIRC, javadeps does handle circular dependencies. I'm a little surprised that, after all this time, the various java compilers don't have the equivalent of "gcc -M". Is that really the case? -S
