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

[Trevor Woerner]

On 12/02/14 09:01, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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!
>

Finding "AC_PATH_X" in "configure.scan" is probably a good indication
there's an RDEPENDS on "libx11". Maybe "recipetool" could check for that?