Re: Visualisation of make files as graphs

2015-01-12 Thread Reinier Post
On Mon Jan 12 19:11:20 2015, elfr...@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring) wrote: > > 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. > > Do you know a few scripts (or other software tools) which p

Re: Visualisation of make files as graphs

2015-01-12 Thread SF Markus Elfring
> 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. Do you know a few scripts (or other software tools) which provide such a data format conversion? Will it become easier to present and edit an overview of

Re: Visualisation of make files as graphs

2015-01-12 Thread Tim Murphy
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 wi

Visualisation of make files as graphs

2015-01-12 Thread SF Markus Elfring
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?