Re: [Boost-build] tracing weird dependecies

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] tracing weird dependecies
From: Patrick Hoffmann (p.hoffmann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-09 19:12:14

Am 09.05.2011, 19:47 Uhr, schrieb Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>:

> AMDG
>
> On 05/08/2011 04:54 PM, Patrick Hoffmann wrote:
>> in a C++ project I got some problems with dependencies which I do not
>> understand. When I changed some header bjam rebuilds some files which do
>> NOT include this header directly or indirectly.
>>
>> The suspect is our QT-MOC-mechanism which pre-compiles some
>> dialog/window class code. Don't know if this is a known problem.
>>
>> But what I really like to know from you guys is, if there is a
>> possibility to trace the dependency of a specific file. I tried some -d
>> option-magic but this gives me over 1 GB of output which I was not able
>> to handle yet.
>>
>
> I use -d+12 and then search for the file name.

I've tried that - but how do I interpret the output? Is there any documentation about the output of -d+12? I mean the file name occurs many times in the log in several contexts.

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