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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Monday 05 of November 2007 22:37:17 Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> 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
Provided configure uses pkg-config. Also if it doesn't use it for everything, 
your application may give a false sense of completeness to the presented 
list. But yeah, could be useful. :)
I think the fact that it logs to a socket is not problematic for bash use. It 
should be just like reading from a file (think /dev/tcp).

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