Funny dependency graphs
I explored various ways to create dependency graphs using free tools only. So far we had to use
proprietary software and as I wanted to see the dependency graph of modules in OpenOffice.org,
I decided to see what free software or open-source tools are available.
The third tool I tried was
Graphviz. It is really powerful -
see its
gallery for example graphs.
The result of my work is a simple
shell script that
walks over
prj/build.lst files and generates a
graph from them (it can generate
many formats, but I generated
PostScript and
PNG only).
Of course, several minor issues are there ;-) As always. The graph contains also StarOffice only
modules (
top,
moz_prebuilt,
print_header) and they stand-up
from other stuff, module
crashrep depends on module
tools only for
StarOffice. Very interesting module is
xmerge. My build on GNU/Linux never enters
it. Its size is 7.2MB etc.
The visualization is only approximative. I'd like to print it, but it looks like it is harder than
I thought :-)
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