Re: Makefile dependency display

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 09 Dec 2005 09:43:50 +0000, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> wrote:
> Do there exist any emacs tools to display the structure of a
> makefile? It would be very nice to show the dependency tree of a
> makefile in a separate buffer.

I have a tool to massage the output of gmake -p into a graph in dot notation.
It would be trivial to add an option to output a Lisp form instead.  What you'd
do with it would be up to you ...

Of course, if your make is not GNU make, this doesn't help you at all.

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