build-sys: add check-includes build target and script

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/check-includes.pl b/tools/check-includes.pl
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+++ b/tools/check-includes.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# checkincludes: Find files included more than once in (other) files.
+# Copyright abandoned, 2000, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk>.
+
+foreach $file (@ARGV) {
+	open(FILE, $file) or die "Cannot open $file: $!.\n";
+
+	my %includedfiles = ();
+
+	while (<FILE>) {
+		if (m/^\s*#\s*include\s*[<"](\S*)[>"]/o) {
+			++$includedfiles{$1};
+		}
+	}
+	foreach $filename (keys %includedfiles) {
+		if ($includedfiles{$filename} > 1) {
+			print "$file: $filename is included more than once.\n";
+		}
+	}
+
+	close(FILE);
+}