Steve Robbins wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > Second question: I'm using jdk1.1.7 and having problems with > > dependencies with javac. It looks a lot smarter than it really is! > > It seems that if I have three files, class1.java which uses class2.java > > which uses class3.java, and I "javac class1.java", it compiles all 3. > > > > If I then change class3.java, and re-run "javac class1.java", > > it doesn't rebuild class3. Is there a fix to this? > > I never figured this out, either. So a couple of years ago, I ended up > writing a tool that parses java code and spits out dependencies in a form > suitable for makefiles. Think of the -MM flag of gcc. > > If you are interested: > > http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~stever/software/JavaDeps > > -S
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