Hello,

> On 14 Sep 2020, at 12:02, Jonatan Schlag <jonatan.schlag(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> this approach would be similar to the root file checker already
> included in the "tools directory.  Maybe this approach is now the
> better one because we can recheck this tool against existing correct
> root files, which should make it easy to find errors in the
> expressions.

Hmm… Two tools doing exactly the same does not seem to be a good idea.

> As such a tool should be well tested and I have to try out BDD
> (Behaviour Driven Development) I will try, to combine these and create
> a little software for this task. 

BDD? Someone has been paying attention in uni :)

Let’s discuss any ideas here first. You can prototype things of course, but do not fully build it out before you have collected a couple of opinions from other people, please.

Best,
-Michael

> I will report back when  I have results.
> 
> Jonatan
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.09.2020, 12:45 +0100 schrieb Michael Tremer:
>> Hello Jonatan,
>> 
>> We have already talked about this patch on the last telephone
>> conference, but I would still like to put forward this:
>> 
>> Can we not change this patch, so that it only tells us what
>> could/should potentially be changed? So the command will simply say
>> things like “/usr/lib/libabc.so is a development file and should not
>> be included”.
>> 
>> Wouldn’t that avoid the problem of any automatic errors and we still
>> have a helper that makes the whole process easier for developers?
>> 
>> For that, the sed statements simply have to be changed to grep and
>> the output of that has to be dealt with.
>> 
>> -Michael
>> 
>>> On 5 Sep 2020, at 09:40, Jonatan Schlag <jonatan.schlag(a)ipfire.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There are some rules which files should be definitely not included
>>> in a
>>> rootfile. Applying these rules by hand is error prone and annoying.
>>> So I
>>> wrote these simple command, because computer can apply these rules
>>> faster and better than humans :-;
>>> 
>>> It removes all lines starting with '-' and comment out all lines
>>> which
>>> point to files which should not be included in the distribution.
>>> This
>>> list needs to be extended, but I think this is a good starting
>>> point to
>>> make the creating of rootfiles easier.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Jonatan Schlag <jonatan.schlag(a)ipfire.org>
>>> ---
>>> make.sh | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/make.sh b/make.sh
>>> index 4a9dd3cb6..909d4a4de 100755
>>> --- a/make.sh
>>> +++ b/make.sh
>>> @@ -1895,6 +1895,41 @@ downloadsrc)
>>> 	fi
>>> 	cd - >/dev/null 2>&1
>>> 	;;
>>> +format-rootfile)
>>> +	if [ ! -f $2 ]; then
>>> +		echo -n "'$2' is not a regular file"
>>> +		beautify message FAIL
>>> +		exit 1
>>> +	fi
>>> +
>>> +	ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT="$2"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .so files in /usr/lib
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/lib\/.*\.so$/s/+/#/g' "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .a files in /usr/lib
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/lib\/.*\.a$/s/+/#/g' "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .la files in /usr/lib
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/lib\/.*\.la$/s/+/#/g' "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .hpp files in /usr/include
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/include\/.*\.hpp$/s/+/#/g'
>>> "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .h files in /usr/include
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/include\/.*\.h$/s/+/#/g' "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .ipp files in /usr/include
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/include\/.*\.ipp$/s/+/#/g'
>>> "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all .m4 files in /usr/share/aclocal
>>> +	sed -i '/^\+usr\/share\/aclocal\/.*\.h$/s/+/#/g'
>>> "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +	# Remove all lines starting with -
>>> +	sed -i '/^-.*$/d' "$ROOTFILE_TO_FORMAT"
>>> +
>>> +;;
>>> toolchain)
>>> 	# Clear screen
>>> 	${INTERACTIVE} && clear
>>> @@ -1990,7 +2025,7 @@ find-dependencies)
>>> 	exec "${BASEDIR}/tools/find-dependencies" "${BASEDIR}/build"
>>> "$@"
>>> 	;;
>>> *)
>>> -	echo "Usage: $0
>>> {build|changelog|clean|gettoolchain|downloadsrc|shell|sync|toolchai
>>> n|update-contributors|find-dependencies}"
>>> +	echo "Usage: $0 {build|changelog|clean|format-
>>> rootfile|gettoolchain|downloadsrc|shell|sync|toolchain|update-
>>> contributors|find-dependencies}"
>>> 	cat doc/make.sh-usage
>>> 	;;
>>> esac
>>> -- 
>>> 2.20.1
>>> 
>