How to find header dependencies for large scale projects on linux

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Published on 2008-09-17T07:51:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 5:10 UTC
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I'm working an a very large scale projects, where the compilation time is very long. What tools can I use (preferably open source) on Linux, to find the most heavily included files and that optimize their useages? Just to be clearer, I need a tool which will, given the dependencies, show me which headers are the most included. By the way, we do use distributed compiling

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