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+<!--
+
+=head1 Using and writing dependency scanners
+
+QuickScan allows simple target-independent scanners to be set up for
+source files. Only one QuickScan scanner may be associated with any given
+source file and environment, although the same scanner may (and should)
+be used for multiple files of a given type.
+
+A QuickScan scanner is only ever invoked once for a given source file,
+and it is only invoked if the file is used by some target in the tree
+(i.e., there is a dependency on the source file).
+
+QuickScan is invoked as follows:
+
+  QuickScan CONSENV CODEREF, FILENAME [, PATH]
+
+The subroutine referenced by CODEREF is expected to return a list of
+filenames included directly by FILE. These filenames will, in turn, be
+scanned. The optional PATH argument supplies a lookup path for finding
+FILENAME and/or files returned by the user-supplied subroutine.  The PATH
+may be a reference to an array of lookup-directory names, or a string of
+names separated by the system's separator character (':' on UNIX systems,
+';' on Windows NT).
+
+The subroutine is called once for each line in the file, with $_ set to the
+current line. If the subroutine needs to look at additional lines, or, for
+that matter, the entire file, then it may read them itself, from the
+filehandle SCAN. It may also terminate the loop, if it knows that no further
+include information is available, by closing the filehandle.
+
+Whether or not a lookup path is provided, QuickScan first tries to lookup
+the file relative to the current directory (for the top-level file
+supplied directly to QuickScan), or from the directory containing the
+file which referenced the file. This is not very general, but seems good
+enough, especially if you have the luxury of writing your own utilities
+and can control the use of the search path in a standard way.
+
+Here's a real example, taken from a F<Construct> file here:
+
+  sub cons::SMFgen {
+      my($env, @tables) = @_;
+      foreach $t (@tables) {
+	  $env->QuickScan(sub { /\b\S*?\.smf\b/g }, "$t.smf",
+			  $env->{SMF_INCLUDE_PATH});
+	  $env->Command(["$t.smdb.cc","$t.smdb.h","$t.snmp.cc",
+			 "$t.ami.cc", "$t.http.cc"], "$t.smf",
+			q(smfgen %( %SMF_INCLUDE_OPT %) %<));
+      }
+  }
+
+The subroutine above finds all names of the form <name>.smf in the
+file. It will return the names even if they're found within comments,
+but that's OK (the mechanism is forgiving of extra files; they're just
+ignored on the assumption that the missing file will be noticed when
+the program, in this example, smfgen, is actually invoked).
+
+[NOTE that the form C<$env-E<gt>QuickScan ...>  and C<$env-E<gt>Command
+...> should not be necessary, but, for some reason, is required
+for this particular invocation. This appears to be a bug in Perl or
+a misunderstanding on my part; this invocation style does not always
+appear to be necessary.]
+
+Here is another way to build the same scanner. This one uses an
+explicit code reference, and also (unnecessarily, in this case) reads
+the whole file itself:
+
+  sub myscan {
+      my(@includes);
+      do {
+	  push(@includes, /\b\S*?\.smf\b/g);
+      } while <SCAN>;
+      @includes
+  }
+
+Note that the order of the loop is reversed, with the loop test at the
+end. This is because the first line is already read for you. This scanner
+can be attached to a source file by:
+
+  QuickScan $env \&myscan, "$_.smf";
+
+This final example, which scans a different type of input file, takes
+over the file scanning rather than being called for each input line:
+
+  $env->QuickScan(
+      sub { my(@includes) = ();
+	  do {
+	     push(@includes, $3)
+		 if /^(#include|import)\s+(\")(.+)(\")/ && $3
+	  } while <SCAN>;
+	  @includes
+      },
+      "$idlFileName",
+      "$env->{CPPPATH};$BUILD/ActiveContext/ACSCLientInterfaces"
+  );
+
+-->
+
+  <para>
+
+    &SCons; has built-in scanners that know how to look in
+    C, Fortran and IDL source files for information about
+    other files that targets built from those files depend on--for example,
+    in the case of files that use the C preprocessor,
+    the <filename>.h</filename> files that are specified
+    using <literal>#include</literal> lines in the source.
+    You can use the same mechanisms that &SCons; uses to create
+    its built-in scanners to write scanners of your own for file types
+    that &SCons; does not know how to scan "out of the box."
+
+  </para>
+
+  <section>
+  <title>A Simple Scanner Example</title>
+
+    <para>
+
+      Suppose, for example, that we want to create a simple scanner
+      for <filename>.foo</filename> files.
+      A <filename>.foo</filename> file contains some text that
+      will be processed,
+      and can include other files on lines that begin
+      with <literal>include</literal>
+      followed by a file name:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      include filename.foo
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+      Scanning a file will be handled by a Python function
+      that you must supply.
+      Here is a function that will use the Python
+      <filename>re</filename> module
+      to scan for the <literal>include</literal> lines in our example:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+      import re
+      
+      include_re = re.compile(r'^include\s+(\S+)$', re.M)
+      
+      def kfile_scan(node, env, path, arg):
+          contents = node.get_text_contents()
+          return include_re.findall(contents)
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+      The scanner function must
+      accept the four specified arguments
+      and return a list of implicit dependencies.
+      Presumably, these would be dependencies found
+      from examining the contents of the file,
+      although the function can perform any
+      manipulation at all to generate the list of
+      dependencies.
+
+    </para>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>node</term>
+
+      <listitem>
+      <para>
+
+      An &SCons; node object representing the file being scanned.
+      The path name to the file can be
+      used by converting the node to a string
+      using the <literal>str()</literal> function,
+      or an internal &SCons; <literal>get_text_contents()</literal>
+      object method can be used to fetch the contents.
+
+      </para>
+      </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>env</term>
+
+      <listitem>
+      <para>
+
+      The construction environment in effect for this scan.
+      The scanner function may choose to use construction
+      variables from this environment to affect its behavior.
+
+      </para>
+      </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>path</term>
+
+      <listitem>
+      <para>
+
+      A list of directories that form the search path for included files
+      for this scanner.
+      This is how &SCons; handles the &cv-link-CPPPATH; and &cv-link-LIBPATH;
+      variables.
+
+      </para>
+      </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+      <term>arg</term>
+
+      <listitem>
+      <para>
+
+      An optional argument that you can choose to
+      have passed to this scanner function by
+      various scanner instances.
+
+      </para>
+      </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+    <para>
+
+    A Scanner object is created using the &Scanner; function,
+    which typically takes an <literal>skeys</literal> argument
+    to associate the type of file suffix with this scanner.
+    The Scanner object must then be associated with the
+    &cv-link-SCANNERS; construction variable of a construction environment,
+    typically by using the &Append; method:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <programlisting>
+       kscan = Scanner(function = kfile_scan,
+                       skeys = ['.k'])
+       env.Append(SCANNERS = kscan)
+    </programlisting>
+
+    <para>
+
+    When we put it all together, it looks like:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <scons_example name="scan">
+      <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
+        import re
+
+        include_re = re.compile(r'^include\s+(\S+)$', re.M)
+
+        def kfile_scan(node, env, path):
+            contents = node.get_text_contents()
+            includes = include_re.findall(contents)
+            return includes
+
+        kscan = Scanner(function = kfile_scan,
+                        skeys = ['.k'])
+
+        env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH' : '__ROOT__/usr/local/bin'})
+        env.Append(SCANNERS = kscan)
+
+        env.Command('foo', 'foo.k', 'kprocess &lt; $SOURCES &gt; $TARGET')
+      </file>
+      <file name="foo.k">
+      include other_file
+      </file>
+      <file name="other_file">
+      other_file
+      </file>
+      <directory name="__ROOT__/usr"></directory>
+      <directory name="__ROOT__/usr/local"></directory>
+      <directory name="__ROOT__/usr/local/bin"></directory>
+      <file name="__ROOT_/usr/local/bin/kprocess" chmod="755">
+      cat
+      </file>
+    </scons_example>
+
+    <!--
+
+    <para>
+
+      Now if we run &scons;
+      and then re-run it after changing the contents of
+      <filename>other_file</filename>,
+      the <filename>foo</filename>
+      target file will be automatically rebuilt:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <scons_output example="scan">
+      <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
+      <scons_output_command output="    [CHANGE THE CONTENTS OF other_file]">edit other_file</scons_output_command>
+      <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
+      <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
+    </scons_output>
+
+    -->
+
+  </section>