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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 01 December 2014 23:54:03 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> 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.

Interesting - I was not aware of this tool. I've added support for running it 
as well as picking converting AC_CHECK_LIB lines over to DEPENDS (with a note 
about some of them possibly being optional). Thanks!

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre