g-b-s patch - dependency calculation

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> Dependency calculation should not do transitive closure, but should only
> list direct library dependencies.  For example, something that depends on
> only libxml2 should not also depend on libiconv2.  Otherwise, if libxml2
> is recompiled to depend on a (theoretical) new libiconv3, the package that
> depended on libxml2 pulls in the now unneeded libiconv2 in addition to
> setup.exe correctly recognizing that libiconv3 is needed.
>
> http://cygwin.com/setup.html agrees with this, stating "Conversely, do not
> include package dependencies of dependent packages in your dependency
> list."  So, this patch fixes g-b-s to only grab direct dependencies,
> rather than everything:
>
> 2005-09-20  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
>
> 	* templates/generic-build-script (depend): Don't do transitive
> 	closure, only direct dependencies.

Eric,

You also included a few whitespace changes in your patch -- while I don't
mind cleanups, it would've been nice to explicitly mention them.  Also,
your RE to detect dependencies ('/^  [[:alpha:]]/') seems wrong -- IMO,
it'll miss DLLs that start with digits or underscores.  I've changed it
accordingly (to '/^  [A-Za-z0-9_]/') and checked in the patch with that
change.

Thanks for the patch.
	Igor
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