[darwinbuild] darwinxref

[Kevin Van Vechten]

Technically, yes, there is a way.  The 'darwinxref loadFiles' command  
will parse a text file that contains lost of entries in the following  
form:

# BUILD 8F46
awk:
         /usr/bin/awk
         /usr/local/OpenSourceLicenses/awk.txt
         /usr/local/OpenSourceVersions/awk.plist
         /usr/share/man/man1/awk.1

So if you have such a text file, you can import that prior to  
building anything, and then the darwinxref findFile will work.   
(darwinxref exportFiles will export a text file in this format from  
an existing darwinxref database).

That being said, I haven't gotten around to distributing these files  
yet.  I suppose the right thing to do would be to put them up on  
opendarwin.org, and automatically download it and loadFiles during  
'darwinbuild -init'.  Look for that feature in 0.7.3 ;-)

- Kevin


On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Philip Rinehart wrote:

> Is there a way to find a file in a project that you want to build  
> with darwinxref *before* you actually build the project, i.e. say  
> just after you have initialized the build tree?
>
> I know you can find the file *after* you have built the project,  
> but it would be much more helpful to search for the project prior  
> to building.
>
> Philip
>
> Philip Rinehart
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