Heinz-Dieter Conradi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi alain,
>
> > > The project is becoming
> > > more and more complex and I have not been able to implement the
> > > dependencies into the Makefiles. So I decided to give this a try in the
> > > JDE environment, but also in vain.
> >
> > Nope, JDE is not the answer. You need an external tool for that. You can look at
>Jikes
> > for dependency rules generation for makefiles.
>
> as was already pointed out by different people, jde alone will not give you
> this dependency checking.
>
> however, if i remember it right, JBuilder can't do this either. it just
> recompiles every class it finds.
>
> something like this is certainly possible with a simple make or ant file.
>
> and as a side remark, if you are really going to recompile the whole project -
> you should consider using jikes - this speeds up the compile time
> tremendeously. furthermore, jikes is able to do some dependency checking, but
> i haven't played with that myself.
Agreed. Forget about Makefiles.
I compile everything with jikes. Even on large projects around 300 or so .java
files, compiles take less than 1 second.
Just compile everything with one command.
Kevin
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