Re: Symbol links to only needed and targeted source files

[Michael Tokarev]

Pelle Svensson wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> You misunderstand me I think, I already using a separate output directory.
> What I like to do is a separate 'source tree' with only valid files
> for my configuration. In that way, when I use grep for instance,
> I would only hit valid files and not 50 other files which are
> not in the current build configuration.

So take a look at those generated files - there are .dep files in there,
which lists dependencies of every file which has been compiled for your
configuration.   Take them, build a list of filenames, and (sym)link them
into separate dir.  Some small awk/sed/grep/sort/uniq/xargs/ln magic and
you're done... ;)

/mjt
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