[fpc-devel] The future of fpmake

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Joost van der Sluis schrieb:

>> That's why I mentioned "or any other structured format".
> 
> It's not a bad idea to see if we can make a structured (and readable)
> format to create our fpmake.pp files.
> 
> I was also thinking about letting fpmake detect from the compiler-output
> if a dependency is missing, and give a warning if this happens, so it
> can be added.

Naive question: is this all about dependency determination?

If so, I'd attack the problem from the other end: an efficient scan of 
the searchpath (both source and compiled), from which the locations of 
all later required ppu and source files can be determined easily.

DoDi