steal build not pulling in all files/dependencies

I'm trying to consolidate/compress all the javascript in my project using buildjs.  i am pointing it to the main url of my site which pulls in the master js file while steals in all the dependencies, that in turn steal in further dependencies and so on.

after working through a bunch of syntax issues in my js that steal build didn't like, it chugged through a bunch of files and created production.js with no errors.  when i now include that file instead of the master js file i notice that it still requests other js files over the wire.  when i cross check the known dependencies that are being stealed in with the list of files output during the build phase, i notice than many are missing... seemingly without rhyme or reason (files referenced by the topmost tier aren't being pulled in, so it doesn't seem like a tree depth issue).

also, not sure if this is expected, but the generated production.js file includes many calls to steal() other files.

-is there anything i need to do to get the build process to build the full dependency tree and pull in all files?
-when is it expected that the generated production.js file will include calls to steal()

thanks