Small custom build of SQLite3 - sqlite

We are using sqlite3 in an application and we really need a super small build of sqlite3 by removing unnecessary functions. We are already using -Os flag.
Our application only uses a single table with couple of indexes and simple select, update, insert, delete queries. All the columns are either integer, text or blob.
I tried to generate custom build of sqlite3.c from canonical source by using various SQLITE_OMIT_* flags below but seems to have only marginal impact on the binary size.
Any suggestions on other OMIT options. Also if any of the OMIT options has any side effects for the limited use I mentioned above.
-DSQLITE_OMIT_ALTERTABLE
-DSQLITE_OMIT_ANALYZE
-DSQLITE_OMIT_ATTACH
-DSQLITE_OMIT_AUTHORIZATION
-DSQLITE_OMIT_BUILTIN_TEST
-DSQLITE_OMIT_CAST
-DSQLITE_OMIT_CHECK
-DSQLITE_OMIT_COMPILEOPTION_DIAGS
-DSQLITE_OMIT_COMPLETE
-DSQLITE_OMIT_COMPOUND_SELECT
-DSQLITE_OMIT_CTE
-DSQLITE_OMIT_DATETIME_FUNCS
-DSQLITE_OMIT_DECLTYPE
-DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED
-DSQLITE_OMIT_EXPLAIN
-DSQLITE_OMIT_FLAG_PRAGMAS
-DSQLITE_OMIT_FLOATING_POINT
-DSQLITE_OMIT_FOREIGN_KEY
-DSQLITE_OMIT_UTF16

You can use all the SQLITE_OMIT_xxx options because you did not mention using any of those features.
Don't use SQLITE_OMIT_WSD, which does not actually remove code and would make the library bigger.
Using SQLITE_OMIT_AUTOINIT would not make sense.
If you forgot to mention that the data is stored on disk, you should avoid SQLITE_OMIT_DISKIO.

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These scripts alter data in place.
It seems when I try to register it with dvc run it complains about cyclic dependencies (input is the same as output).
I would assume this is a very common use case.
What is the best practice here ?
Tried to google around but i did not see any solution to this (besides creating another folder for the output).
Usually, we split input and output into separate files rather than modify everything in place, not only for the separation of concerns principles but also to make it fit with tools like DVC.
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Workaround for output=graph with bazel cquery

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Is there a work-around to somehow get a graph-like structure from cquery? The default output is just a flattened list which seems to contain no information on the inter-dependencies between the targets.
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I need to create a dependency graph for a software suite that I am working on. In the past the company I work for has always done this manually, but I am guessing that there is a tool somewhere that will do what we need.
The software I am working with is Ada95, and has about 200 code modules/files, with about 40 packages. I need to create a map that will trace every output, individually, back to each input or constant that will have an impact on the output. Does anybody know of a tool that would accomplish this? Or even just partially accomplish it?
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Unix touch command usage

I know you can use touch to create a new empty file.
I just learned that touch can be used to update the access and modification time of a file. I don't quite know in what situations and why do you need to update the access and modification time of a file , i.e. the usefulness of this particular function?
Thanks!
Some utility depends on timestamp of the file.
For example, make uses timestamp to check whether it is required to do something (usually build) based on the timestamp of the source code, and output (executable, object files, ...)
By touching followed by make, the source file, you can force rebuild.
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For example, when adding a declaration to a common header file,
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How to query the containing partition of a file with KDE/Qt4?

I'm using KDE, and I'm toying with the idea of hacking the code for Dolphin File Manager (and potentially Konqueror if necessary) to get context-sensitive drag and drop behaviour (i.e. files are moved within the same partition, or copied if they're moved across partitions or the source is read only).
To do this, I think I'd need to find out the containing partition of the source and destination (easy enough on Windows using the drive letter, but on Linux, as mount points can be almost anywhere, it can't be reliably derived from the file path), and compare them.
Does anyone know how I can find out the partition that contains a given file?
It must be possible - I know Nautilus provides this sort of behaviour, but I'm not familiar enough with GTK to track down the appropriate section in the source code to see how its done...
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