[texhax] automatic dependency generation for pdflatex

[Steve Schwartz]

Bob,

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but have you tried running latex
with a -recorder option, i.e.,

latex -recorder file.tex

? This generates a .fls file that has all the input files, etc., and
with full paths to the files. I attach a script I wrote around it to
pack up a latex file together with the various input files, graphics
files, etc., so I could ship it to someone else. Indeed, my script looks
for and throws away the files related to latex packages, which I guess
is what you want to keep!

HTH

Steve

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 15:03 -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to integrate latex into my build system. I use autotools,
> along with make. I can't figure out how to have latex automatically
> generate the dependencies. The closest I have found is this,
>   http://www.ams.org/tex/snapshot.html
> the only problem with it is, it gives relative filenames, not absolute.
> 
> Shouldn't latex provide this feature? Any user using a build system to
> build latex would require this functionality. I've found a dozen people
> asking the same question over the years. Any thoughts on how I can solve
> this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob Rossi
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