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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

I thought I'd advertise my latest creation here because it has potential for 
making a mage's life easier.

I've written a patch for pkg-config which adds the option to log to a Unix 
socket. That means you can capture info about what packages a configure 
script is looking for -- without ever having to modify the scripts. You 
simply fire up a program that listens on a socket, set the 
PKG_CONFIG_LOG_SOCKET variable to point to that socket, and voilá: pkg-config 
will report the packages and versions requested from it.

Add to that some logic for matching pkg-config package names with spell 
names, 
and you get a program that tells you what spells a source package is hungry 
for.

I've uploaded a tarball with the patch plus an example program to demonstrate 
the feature. I'll highly appreciate any feedback. Get it at: 
http://www.cs.uta.fi/~a445063/pkg-config-logsocket.tar.bz2

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        Juuso Alasuutari
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