Re: How to determine header dependencies for -dev packages

[Elie Rosenblum <fnord@jurai.net>]

And thus spake Sverker Wiberg, on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 02:53:39PM +0200:
> Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> wrote:
> 
> > Is there an easy way to determine header dependencies?  Anyone header
> > could include many others.  Or do I have to open up each header and
> > track down which package it is included in?
> 
> Here's a piece of plumbing I put together in five minutes:
> 
>    bash$ gcc -E frobozz.c | grep "^# " | cut -d\  -f3 | sort | uniq
> 
> It only shows you the collapsed dependencies, not the tree-structure
> you might want. Also, you should also add in whatever defines (the -D
> flag) you usually have.

Any real reason not to use gcc -M to generate this same thing?

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