makedepend missing?

Question

I can't modify the makefile due to policy, so I tried placing an alias in my .bash_profile, but it did not work as expected.

Is anyone aware of an alternative? Does Apple put deprecate packages anywhere? I did not see it on opensource.apple.com.

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '14 at 15:52

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Did you try:

brew install makedepend

answered Mar 23 '14 at 15:52

vpathak

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 25 '12 at 15:47

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Two seconds of googling found this, which says that gcc -M is equivalent to makedepend.

answered Dec 25 '12 at 15:47

Barmar

makedepend does a bunch of argument munging around -M. A few more seconds of googling will reveal 1,000,000 places to download the script. – bmargulies Dec 25 '12 at 16:14
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Thanks @Barmar. "Two seconds of googling found this" - it would be great if it worked. Apparently they are not equivalent, or something else is wrong. I can't modify the makefile due to policy, but I did try adding an alias to .bash_profile, which died. (For S&G, I did try plugging in gcc -M and llvm-ggc -M. Neither worked). – jww Dec 26 '12 at 20:46
Aliases aren't used by make, try writing a script (which is what makedepend usually is). And as bmargulies pointed out, you can't just plug it in, you need to do some argument munging. – Barmar Dec 26 '12 at 20:52
Thanks @Barmar. "Aliases aren't used by make" - the shell would perform the command substitution (transparent to maker), no? – jww Dec 27 '12 at 03:40

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