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From: | David Boyce |
Subject: | Re: display the problem of dependency graphically? |
Date: | Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:18:08 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) |
Dave Korn wrote:
And some work has been done in this direction. I don't remember the name of the package or where I read about it (here?) but there is a piece of free SW which will read a Makefile and render the DAG using graphviz. I set it up once - it was not a finished product, more of a nice start. You could probably dig it up with the right search terms.On 18 July 2007 00:40, Torsten Mohr wrote:Hi, i'd like to show the problem of dependency and (re-)making packages (or files) based on other packages to some collegues. I wonder if there is some standardised way to display this in a graphical way? The best i could think of is "Activity charts" in UML. Is there some better way to describe graphically what GNU make does?A directed acyclic graph rendered in graphviz sounds like a better fit to me ...
David Boyce
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