On Saturday 07 November 2009 08:37:30 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> hi,
>
> if there is somebody who would like to contribute to lyx and like to tackle
> with some python/bash scripting, consider fixing the bug
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6305 .
>
> pavel


Hi Pavel,

The part where you remove .h includes from .cpp  is dead bang easy if rather 
slow. Not so with the .h includes inside other .h files. For each #include 
removal from a .h file, you'd have to compile every .cpp that includes the 
including .h.

1.5.4 has 539 .h files and 463 .cpp files. That's roughly a quarter million 
combinations. Multiply that by each #include within each .h file. Ugh! Check 
this out:

sl...@mydesk:~/junk/lyx-1.5.4$ find . | grep \.h$ | xargs grep \#include | wc
   1694    3604   90852
sl...@mydesk:~/junk/lyx-1.5.4$

On the positive side, short circuit logic means that on non-extraneous 
includes, the error will probably appear before all .cpp files have been 
compiled.

Also, I'm pretty sure that some #includes aren't necessary for compile, but 
WILL eliminate some warnings. So the test would need to fail if any output 
occurs on the gcc -Wall command.

I'm wondering if there's a less compute intensive method than the brute force 
method of removing a #include from a .h, and then recompiling every .cpp file.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt


Reply via email to