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Dynamic dependencies are supported by build2 (this is, for example, how we handle auto-generated C/C++ headers) but it's not something that is exposed in ad hoc recipes that are written in Buildscript yet (but is exposed in those written in C++). Our plan is to start with the ability to "ingest" make dependency declarations since quite a few tools are able to produce those. Would something like this cover your use-cases?

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Very likely, yes. I'm generating my own makefiles anyways, so generating something that build2 could consume should be possible, too.

Would it be appropriate to open a github issue for discussing this further? I would like to share some example for how my current setup is working and having the github syntax available would be helpful.

Yes, please, that would be very helpful: https://github.com/build2/build2/issues

"issue" filed. My apologies for the lack of brevity.

https://github.com/build2/build2/issues/135

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