I have made a small update to the jprint branch of my experimental GNU make fork.
https://github.com/tnmurphy/gmake-experimental.git jprint is patch to make that allows you to print out the make database in json format such that it's relatively easy to parse with a top-level structure like so: { "Makefile": [ "directories", "files", "rules", "variables" ] } You can already print the database out in a form that make itself can re-read but all the effort to parse it is left up to the user - json is much easier to use. The Update: * You can now specify the base output filename with an environment variable: MAKE_JSON_BASE. This creates files named $MAKE_JSON_BASE-XXX.json where XXX is the PID of the make or submake that generated the output. * It also writes an index file now - perhaps unnecessary - but this should allow the implementation of a feature to join up the output later: $MAKE_JSON_BASE.idx * The status of tasks now includes whether or not they succeeded or would have been executed (in the case of -q or quiet builds) What's still not done: Directories are not dumped in json - this is a bit of a pain but I will get to it when I'm desperate and there's absolutely nothing easy or fun left to do :-). Best regards, Tim Murphy
