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From: "Bertrand Augereau" <tramboi@hotmail.com>
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> In the world of C/C++ and even Java, this problem is so common. Makefiles
> are used to try to prevent this, but for anything more complex than a
> simple project, very few programmers know enough about Makefiles to
> get all the dependencies done right.  gnatmake does all this work for
> you.

I think gnatmake is compiler specific, so you can say that running the gnu
preprocessor with flag -M would generate a Makefile for a set of C or C++
sources, which is almost equivalent.