This is generally a hopeless thing to do because the graphs become enormous spiderwebs.
Gephi is good enough to do large makefiles without crashing or slowing down to a stop. You can use "gmake --print-database -f Makefile" and then write a script to convert that into .dot format which gephi will load up for you. Then you can feast your eyes on something like this: http://oceans.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/hair_ball.jpg It might offer you some insight into a small makefile though. For big makefiles some further degree of analysis is needed to try to simplify the picture. Regards, Tim On 12 January 2015 at 17:04, SF Markus Elfring < elfr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Make files can grow to a size (with all their build rules > and various script code) where it becomes harder to follow > the involved data processing structures. > > Do you know any software tools which provide graphical > visualisations for work flows that were developed with > the make file syntax? > > Regards, > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-make mailing list > Bug-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make > -- You could help some brave and decent people to have access to uncensored news by making a donation at: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/friends/
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