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Re: Code Documentation
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Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: Code Documentation |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:42:20 -0500 |
%% "Brian Healy" <address@hidden> writes:
bh> I am a final year student at The University of Limerick in Ireland
bh> studying Computer Systems. As part of my studies i'm doing a Final
bh> year project on visualisation of the dependencies within
bh> makefiles. Part of doing this project involves the correct parsing
bh> of a Makefile. I am wondering if there is any documentation out
bh> there that I could use to help me understand the parsing portion
bh> of the gnu make program, or even better still is there anyone who
bh> is familiar with it themselves and could answer any questions i
bh> might have.
There is no documentation on the implementation of make except for the
comments in the code, that I'm aware of.
As for answering questions, I'm sure there are a number of people who
can help explain how makefiles are parsed.
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