Re: jikes and dependencies with javac
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
see also, jikes +M
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