MAKE and backup - feature request

[Ph. Marek]

Hi everybody,

I've got a feature request.


I'm going (in a script) through my users' home directory to find all files
worth backing up. But: occasionly are there some MB generated from small
programs (down to a few hundred bytes). As it would be possible to back up
only the sources and neither the binary or the result files, I'd need a
possibility to find the sources.


So my thought goes: gcc has a switch to get the dependencies from a given
.c-file. If make had a switch to emit all target and intermediary files
from a given Makefile, I could ignore them during backup.

It would be less worth to get a list of "lowest-level" files (leaf nodes in
the info manual) - there could be eg. some auxiliary text files that should
be backed up. But a list of files to ignore would be perfect.


Thank you for your humour,
keep your spirits up,


regards

Phil