Re: [ANNOUNCE] include dependency graph script

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Em Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:55:30PM +1100, Keith Owens escreveu:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:30:33 -0200, 
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> >	For the people that like me, Daniel Phillips and Manfred Spraul are
> >working on pruning the include dependencies in the kernel sources I made a
> >simple script to make a graphviz file to plot the dependencies in a nice
> >graphic, its available at:
> >
> >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/acme/hviz
> 
> I suggest that you prune linux/config.h and autoconf.h from all graphs.
> The dependency system does not depend directly on those files, instead
> it depends on individual config options.
> 
> It makes more sense to list the individual config options that an
> include file depends on, see the code in scripts/mkdep.c.  Even then it
> would be better to suppress the config options by default and only list
> them when requested.

Thanks for the comments, this was a quick hack, I'll probably rewrite it in
python gleaning code from a tool we have here in Conectiva to prune/analise
the RPM packages dependency hell.

- Arnaldo