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1 """distutils.dep_util
2
3 Utility functions for simple, timestamp-based dependency of files
4 and groups of files; also, function based entirely on such
5 timestamp dependency analysis."""
6
7 # This module should be kept compatible with Python 1.5.2.
8
9 __revision__ = "$Id$"
10
11 import os
12 from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError
13
14
15 def newer (source, target):
16 """Return true if 'source' exists and is more recently modified than
17 'target', or if 'source' exists and 'target' doesn't. Return false if
18 both exist and 'target' is the same age or younger than 'source'.
19 Raise DistutilsFileError if 'source' does not exist.
20 """
21 if not os.path.exists(source):
22 raise DistutilsFileError, "file '%s' does not exist" % source
23 if not os.path.exists(target):
24 return 1
25
26 from stat import ST_MTIME
27 mtime1 = os.stat(source)[ST_MTIME]
28 mtime2 = os.stat(target)[ST_MTIME]
29
30 return mtime1 > mtime2
31
32 # newer ()
33
34
35 def newer_pairwise (sources, targets):
36 """Walk two filename lists in parallel, testing if each source is newer
37 than its corresponding target. Return a pair of lists (sources,
38 targets) where source is newer than target, according to the semantics
39 of 'newer()'.
40 """
41 if len(sources) != len(targets):
42 raise ValueError, "'sources' and 'targets' must be same length"
43
44 # build a pair of lists (sources, targets) where source is newer
45 n_sources = []
46 n_targets = []
47 for i in range(len(sources)):
48 if newer(sources[i], targets[i]):
49 n_sources.append(sources[i])
50 n_targets.append(targets[i])
51
52 return (n_sources, n_targets)
53
54 # newer_pairwise ()
55
56
57 def newer_group (sources, target, missing='error'):
58 """Return true if 'target' is out-of-date with respect to any file
59 listed in 'sources'. In other words, if 'target' exists and is newer
60 than every file in 'sources', return false; otherwise return true.
61 'missing' controls what we do when a source file is missing; the
62 default ("error") is to blow up with an OSError from inside 'stat()';
63 if it is "ignore", we silently drop any missing source files; if it is
64 "newer", any missing source files make us assume that 'target' is
65 out-of-date (this is handy in "dry-run" mode: it'll make you pretend to
66 carry out commands that wouldn't work because inputs are missing, but
67 that doesn't matter because you're not actually going to run the
68 commands).
69 """
70 # If the target doesn't even exist, then it's definitely out-of-date.
71 if not os.path.exists(target):
72 return 1
73
74 # Otherwise we have to find out the hard way: if *any* source file
75 # is more recent than 'target', then 'target' is out-of-date and
76 # we can immediately return true. If we fall through to the end
77 # of the loop, then 'target' is up-to-date and we return false.
78 from stat import ST_MTIME
79 target_mtime = os.stat(target)[ST_MTIME]
80 for source in sources:
81 if not os.path.exists(source):
82 if missing == 'error': # blow up when we stat() the file
83 pass
84 elif missing == 'ignore': # missing source dropped from
85 continue # target's dependency list
86 elif missing == 'newer': # missing source means target is
87 return 1 # out-of-date
88
89 source_mtime = os.stat(source)[ST_MTIME]
90 if source_mtime > target_mtime:
91 return 1
92 else:
93 return 0
94
95 # newer_group ()