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Re: Identify included files
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Urs Liska |
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Re: Identify included files |
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Mon, 18 May 2020 15:56:18 +0200 |
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Am Montag, den 18.05.2020, 14:37 +0100 schrieb antlists:
> On 18/05/2020 13:44, David Kastrup wrote:
> > antlists <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > On 15/05/2020 21:17, Fr. Samuel Springuel wrote:
> > > > Now I just need to turn this list into something that can be
> > > > used to
> > > > figure out if the target needs to be recompiled.
> > >
> > > As Jacques said, "make".
> > >
> > > At the top of your directory structure you can have a makefile,
> > > and it
> > > just contains a list of all your targets, and the files they
> > > depend
> > > on. Okay, every time you add a new include, you need to update
> > > it,
> > > but...
> > >
> > > Then when you change something, you just go to your top
> > > directory,
> > > type "make", and watch everything affected by your recent changes
> > > recompile.
> > >
> > > The really nice thing about it, is it will handle recursive
> > > includes
> > > by itself. Can't remember the syntax, but if an include file
> > > pulls in
> > > other includes, you can define that include file as a target,
> > > which
> > > then flags any other that targets that use it. So each target in
> > > your
> > > makefile only needs to include the includes that it depends
> > > *directly*
> > > upon.
> >
> > That's not how Makefile dependencies work. Dependencies track the
> > relation of _output_ files to their _input_. They do not track the
> > hierarchy of different input files that only refer to each other by
> > name: for the purpose of Make, those are independent and
> > equivalent.
> > But the _output_ file(s) generated from them are dependent on all
> > of the
> > respective input files in use, and tracking those and generating
> > the
> > dependencies was what Fr. Samuel was asking about in the first
> > place.
> >
> Yup. But he wanted to know "which files do I need to recompile".
> Which
> is exactly what makefiles do.
>
> so if trombone.pdf is compiled from trombone.ly, which includes
> trombone-notes.ly, which includes dynamics.ly, then I know there is
> some
> sort of syntax which will:
>
> define trombone-notes.ly as a target, define it as changed if its
> dependencies change, and say "it doesn't exist as a file that can be
> created with a command".
>
> So if dynamics.ly changes, it cascades up and causes trombone.pdf to
> be
> re-compiled, but this is the important bit - you don't need to
> *ex*plicitly define trombone.pdf as relying on dynamics.ly
>
>
> Just had a slight rethink - which affects things - namely what
> exactly
> is Fr. Samuel trying to achieve. Does he want a list of dependencies
> as
> a thing in its own right, or does he want to know which targets need
> to
> be recompiled as a result of changing a file. Because "make" is all
> he
> needs if the latter is what he's aiming for. If he really wants the
> former, then yes he'll need all thse lily functions etc that people
> have
> pointed him to.
Sounds nice, but how can you tell Make what include files a given .ly
file depends on? Without inside knowledge into the LilyPond way of
recursing into the input files?
Urs
>
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
- Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/14
- Re: Identify included files, Urs Liska, 2020/05/15
- Re: Identify included files, Valentin Villenave, 2020/05/15
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/15
- Re: Identify included files, Jacques Menu Catalina, 2020/05/15
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/15
- Re: Identify included files, antlists, 2020/05/18
- Re: Identify included files, David Kastrup, 2020/05/18
- Re: Identify included files, antlists, 2020/05/18
- Re: Identify included files,
Urs Liska <=
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Identify included files, David Wright, 2020/05/18
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/20
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/20
- Re: Identify included files, David Wright, 2020/05/20
- Re: Identify included files, antlists, 2020/05/21
- Re: Identify included files, David Kastrup, 2020/05/21
- Re: Identify included files, antlists, 2020/05/21
- Re: Identify included files, Fr. Samuel Springuel, 2020/05/21