On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Second question: I'm using jdk1.1.7 and having problems with
> dependencies with javac. It looks a lot smarter than it really is!
> It seems that if I have three files, class1.java which uses class2.java
> which uses class3.java, and I "javac class1.java", it compiles all 3.
>
> If I then change class3.java, and re-run "javac class1.java",
> it doesn't rebuild class3. Is there a fix to this?
I never figured this out, either. So a couple of years ago, I ended up
writing a tool that parses java code and spits out dependencies in a form
suitable for makefiles. Think of the -MM flag of gcc.
If you are interested:
http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~stever/software/JavaDeps
-S
