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Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs


From: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:11:30 +1100

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 21:51 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> I can't think of a way to easily dig out statistically useful data
> from a VCS or Google code search on how often it happens either to me
> or
> generally.  But I mainly offered it as a more concrete example of the
> sort of issues I had in mind.

One particularly common multiple-output case is generating the
dependencies used during compilation:

gcc -MD -o foo.c
-> foo.o
-> foo.d

:)

-Rob
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