[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/7] Developer workflow improvements

[Trevor Woerner]

On 11/25/14 12:28, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> I've then added a new recipe auto-creation script, recipetool, which can
> take a source tree or URL and create a skeleton recipe to build it. 
...
>  * "recipetool create" ideally needs to become smarter and fill in
>    more details of the recipe. At some point we'll probably have to
>    make the process interactive and possibly have it automate parts of
>    the build process and examine the output; some things just can't be
>    practically detected from the source tree without building.

There is a tool "autoscan" which might be of some use here. If nothing
else, the resulting configure.scan file could be parsed for DEPENDS
information and perhaps PACKAGECONFIG items too.