Program dependent component amalgamation

Abstract

Some embodiments construct a set of build dependencies for a program without access to a full set of build instructions. When multiple clashing name resolutions are identified for a particular dependency, a union of the alternative versions is formed. Intermediate representations of the union of program versions, such as symbol tables, abstract syntax trees, and other internal compiler data structures, are emitted to persistent non-volatile storage, instead of using a single resolution to create temporary intermediate data to build an executable program. Security analysis and licensing analysis utilize the persisted program representations to analyze the union of multiple overlapping but different versions of the program.