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2015-09-02Add dependency tracking (makedep)Loïc Hoguin
This is a very large change of a central part of Erlang.mk. I will admit that I am not quite confident on that one. If you do have issues following this change, please open a ticket and I will look at it immediately. At this point, it works for me, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear about a few minor issues. This commit introduces a dependency file $(PROJECT).d which contains Makefile rules between Erlang source files and headers, behaviors and parse_transforms. This allows us to rebuild only the files that are needed. The $(PROJECT).d is generated automatically when missing, and when any of the files change. It is possible to hook before and after this generation, by defining a $(PROJECT).d:: rule. This allows users to generate Erlang files which are then compiled by Erlang.mk automatically (and to track their dependencies, of course). Here goes nothing...