[Buildroot] [PATCH] core: add rule to dump packages' build order

[Yann E. MORIN]

Arnout, All,

On 2017-04-07 21:24 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> >  So, I can think of no viable alternative, so there is no way to stop this patch :-)
> What about the following (just proof-of-concept):

Hmmm, it seems there was a bad copy-paste failure.

Here it is again:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 919d589..a1540fc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -759,6 +759,14 @@ show-targets:

 show-build-order: $(patsubst %,%-show-build-order,$(PACKAGES))

+define show-build-order-deps
+	$(foreach p,$($(call UPPERCASE,$(1))_FINAL_ALL_DEPENDENCIES),\
+		$(call show-build-order-deps-deps,$(p))) $(1)
+endef
+
+show-build-order-2:
+	@./toto $(foreach p,$(PACKAGES),$(call show-build-order-deps-deps,$(p)))
+
 graph-build: $(O)/build/build-time.log
 	@install -d $(GRAPHS_DIR)
 	$(foreach o,name build duration,./support/scripts/graph-build-time \
diff --git a/toto b/toto
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6962083
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toto
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# input on stdin: list of packages, each rpreceded by its
+# direct dependencies; so, packages may be listed more than
+# once, but at least the build order is gurranteed for the
+# first occurence of each package.
+
+# We first output each item of the list on its own line.
+# Then we number those lines.
+# We sort by package name as first key, and on line number
+# as second key.
+# For each package, we keep only the first occurence, which
+# is the one with the lowest line number.
+# We re-sort on the line number.
+# And eventually, we remove the line number and only keep
+# the package name.
+
+# The output is thus the build order.
+
+printf "%s\n" "${@}"
+|cat -n \
+|sort -k 2,2 -k 1,1n \
+|while read n p; do
+    if [ "${p}" != "${prev}" ]; then
+        printf "%d %s\n" "${n}" "${p}"
+        prev="${p}"
+    fi
+done \
+|sort -n \
+|sed -r -e 's/^[[:digit:]]+ //'


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