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[Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl AT gmail.com>]

В Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:37:17 +0200
Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org> пишет:

> 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

I think this is a great feature but it should be used with care.
Maybe quill can benefit from this? Btw. why are you logging to socket
and not to the file? I think it would be simpler to work with log file
than listening on a socket.

P.S. I remember T2 has some sort of dependency autodetection, but I
don't know which technique they use. You can try and investigate their
method if you want.


-- 
Alexander Tsamutali