makedepfort

Introduction

This is a small Python script to extract the prerequisites of the object file that is obtained by compiling a fortran source file named on the command line. The results are printed in the format that is used in makefiles' dependency lists.

There are several tools which do the same thing, namely,

• makedepf90
• sfmakedepend
• f90_mod_deps.py (c.f. the information found here is very valuable.)

but none of them satisfied the author; for example, for some files makedepf90 falls into infinite loops. Therefore, he decided to make it by himself.

Installation

At present there's no setup.py install script; place this script somewhere PATH environmental variable points (additionaly you may adjust the first line which reads #!/usr/bin/env python to your environment).

Usage

usage: makedepfort [-h] [-g] ffile [ffile ...]

positional arguments:
  ffile

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -g, --include-global  include dependencies on global include files

The usage shown above is printed by makedepfort -h.

Features and Limitation

• By default, this script does not list the include files which are not found by searching for the files using the paths specified in the source files; these shoud be in some standard directories. Use options -g or --include-global to list these include files.

• At this moment the extention for module files is fixed to .mod; it is not difficult to add an option for this.

License

This is free software; it can be copied, used, modified and redistributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2. You can read it in the LICENSE file which should be distributed with the software, or its web site.