RE: hidden dependencies

[Warlich, Christof]

> I think you should look at Audited Objects
> (http://audited-objects.sourceforge.net/) and in particular at its
> dependency generation feature
> (http://audited-objects.sourceforge.net/html/man/ao-howto.html#dependency_generation).
> This does automatic discovery of all dependency information without
> modification of the Makefile. Usage is basically "ao -MD make ...".
This really sounds interesting. I'll certainly dig into this during the
weekend, thanks a lot!  

> Caveats:
> 
> - I can't call this a best practice because AO is very new and not
> much used yet.
Better new and hot than old and dumb :-)

> - Given its newness there may be a few rough edges, and the interface
> may change a bit though probably not this particular aspect.
I'll be delighted to do some testing.