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- ;;; shadow.el --- Locate Emacs Lisp file shadowings.
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Terry Jones <terry@santafe.edu>
- ;; Keywords: lisp
- ;; Created: 15 December 1995
-
- ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ;; any later version.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
- ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; The functions in this file detect (`find-emacs-lisp-shadows')
- ;; and display (`list-load-path-shadows') potential load-path
- ;; problems that arise when Emacs Lisp files "shadow" each other.
- ;;
- ;; For example, a file XXX.el early in one's load-path will shadow
- ;; a file with the same name in a later load-path directory. When
- ;; this is unintentional, it may result in problems that could have
- ;; been easily avoided. This occurs often (to me) when installing a
- ;; new version of emacs and something in the site-lisp directory
- ;; has been updated and added to the emacs distribution. The old
- ;; version, now outdated, shadows the new one. This is obviously
- ;; undesirable.
- ;;
- ;; The `list-load-path-shadows' function was run when you installed
- ;; this version of emacs. To run it by hand in emacs:
- ;;
- ;; M-x load-library RET shadow RET
- ;; M-x list-load-path-shadows
- ;;
- ;; or run it non-interactively via:
- ;;
- ;; emacs -batch -l shadow.el -f list-load-path-shadows
- ;;
- ;; Thanks to Francesco Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> for suggestions,
- ;; rewritings & speedups.
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (defun find-emacs-lisp-shadows (&optional path)
- "Return a list of Emacs Lisp files that create shadows.
- This function does the work for `list-load-path-shadows'.
-
- We traverse PATH looking for shadows, and return a \(possibly empty\)
- even-length list of files. A file in this list at position 2i shadows
- the file in position 2i+1. Emacs Lisp file suffixes \(.el and .elc\)
- are stripped from the file names in the list.
-
- See the documentation for `list-load-path-shadows' for further information."
-
- (or path (setq path load-path))
-
- (let (true-names ; List of dirs considered.
- shadows ; List of shadowings, to be returned.
- files ; File names ever seen, with dirs.
- dir ; The dir being currently scanned.
- curr-files ; This dir's Emacs Lisp files.
- orig-dir ; Where the file was first seen.
- files-seen-this-dir ; Files seen so far in this dir.
- file) ; The current file.
-
-
- (while path
-
- (setq dir (file-truename (or (car path) ".")))
- (if (member dir true-names)
- ;; We have already considered this PATH redundant directory.
- ;; Show the redundancy if we are interactiver, unless the PATH
- ;; dir is nil or "." (these redundant directories are just a
- ;; result of the current working directory, and are therefore
- ;; not always redundant).
- (or noninteractive
- (and (car path)
- (not (string= (car path) "."))
- (message "Ignoring redundant directory %s" (car path))))
-
- (setq true-names (append true-names (list dir)))
- (setq dir (or (car path) "."))
- (setq curr-files (if (file-accessible-directory-p dir)
- (directory-files dir nil ".\\.elc?$" t)))
- (and curr-files
- (not noninteractive)
- (message "Checking %d files in %s..." (length curr-files) dir))
-
- (setq files-seen-this-dir nil)
-
- (while curr-files
-
- (setq file (car curr-files))
- (setq file (substring
- file 0 (if (string= (substring file -1) "c") -4 -3)))
-
- ;; 'file' now contains the current file name, with no suffix.
- (if (member file files-seen-this-dir)
- nil
-
- ;; File has not been seen yet in this directory.
- ;; This test prevents us declaring that XXX.el shadows
- ;; XXX.elc (or vice-versa) when they are in the same directory.
- (setq files-seen-this-dir (cons file files-seen-this-dir))
-
- (if (setq orig-dir (assoc file files))
- ;; This file was seen before, we have a shadowing.
- (setq shadows
- (append shadows
- (list (concat (cdr orig-dir) "/" file)
- (concat dir "/" file))))
-
- ;; Not seen before, add it to the list of seen files.
- (setq files (cons (cons file dir) files))))
-
- (setq curr-files (cdr curr-files))))
- (setq path (cdr path)))
-
- ;; Return the list of shadowings.
- shadows))
-
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun list-load-path-shadows ()
-
- "Display a list of Emacs Lisp files that shadow other files.
-
- This function lists potential load-path problems. Directories in the
- `load-path' variable are searched, in order, for Emacs Lisp
- files. When a previously encountered file name is found again, a
- message is displayed indicating that the later file is \"hidden\" by
- the earlier.
-
- For example, suppose `load-path' is set to
-
- \(\"/usr/gnu/emacs/site-lisp\" \"/usr/gnu/emacs/share/emacs/19.30/lisp\"\)
-
- and that each of these directories contains a file called XXX.el. Then
- XXX.el in the site-lisp directory is referred to by all of:
- \(require 'XXX\), \(autoload .... \"XXX\"\), \(load-library \"XXX\"\) etc.
-
- The first XXX.el file prevents emacs from seeing the second \(unless
- the second is loaded explicitly via load-file\).
-
- When not intended, such shadowings can be the source of subtle
- problems. For example, the above situation may have arisen because the
- XXX package was not distributed with versions of emacs prior to
- 19.30. An emacs maintainer downloaded XXX from elsewhere and installed
- it. Later, XXX was updated and included in the emacs distribution.
- Unless the emacs maintainer checks for this, the new version of XXX
- will be hidden behind the old \(which may no longer work with the new
- emacs version\).
-
- This function performs these checks and flags all possible
- shadowings. Because a .el file may exist without a corresponding .elc
- \(or vice-versa\), these suffixes are essentially ignored. A file
- XXX.elc in an early directory \(that does not contain XXX.el\) is
- considered to shadow a later file XXX.el, and vice-versa.
-
- When run interactively, the shadowings \(if any\) are displayed in a
- buffer called `*Shadows*'. Shadowings are located by calling the
- \(non-interactive\) companion function, `find-emacs-lisp-shadows'."
-
- (interactive)
- (let* ((shadows (find-emacs-lisp-shadows))
- (n (/ (length shadows) 2))
- (msg (format "%s Emacs Lisp load-path shadowing%s found"
- (if (zerop n) "No" (concat "\n" (number-to-string n)))
- (if (= n 1) " was" "s were"))))
- (if (interactive-p)
- (save-excursion
- ;; We are interactive.
- ;; Create the *Shadows* buffer and display shadowings there.
- (let ((output-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Shadows*")))
- (display-buffer output-buffer)
- (set-buffer output-buffer)
- (erase-buffer)
- (while shadows
- (insert (format "%s hides %s\n" (car shadows)
- (car (cdr shadows))))
- (setq shadows (cdr (cdr shadows))))
- (insert msg "\n")))
- ;; We are non-interactive, print shadows via message.
- (while shadows
- (message "%s hides %s" (car shadows) (car (cdr shadows)))
- (setq shadows (cdr (cdr shadows))))
- (message "%s" msg))))
-
- (provide 'shadow)
-
- ;;; shadow.el ends here
-