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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Library dependency check script inspired by revdep-rebuild of Gentoo Linux
+#
+# Christoph Niethammer <niethammer@hlrs.de> (C) 2011
+#
+ 
+declare -r APP_NAME="${0##*/}"
+declare -r VERSION="0.1"
+declare -r FILES_FILE=1_files.rr
+declare -r BROKEN_FILE=2_broken.rr
+declare findMask
+declare MODULE_NAMES
+declare SEARCH_DIRS
+
+
+# extract path information from module file
+find_paths() {
+    local pathspec=$1
+    local PATHS=$( module display $MODULE_NAME |& awk "/.*path[[:space:]]+$pathspec[[:space:]]+/{ sub(/.*path[[:space:]]+$pathspec[[:space:]]+/,\"\"); print }" )
+    for path in $PATHS; do 
+        SEARCH_DIRS+="$path "
+    done
+}
+
+
+
+function print_usage {
+
+binary=`basename $0`
+cat <<EOF
+${APP_NAME}: (${VERSION})
+
+Copyright (C) 2011 Christoph Niethammer <niethammer@hlrs.de>
+
+Usage: $APP_NAME MODULE
+
+-h, --help       Print this usage
+
+Checks linking consistency of given modules.
+
+EOF
+}
+
+
+
+##############################################################################
+# MAIN
+##############################################################################
+
+if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
+    print_usage
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+for arg in $@; do
+    case $arg in
+        --help|-h)
+            print_usage
+            exit 0
+            ;;
+        *)
+            MODULE_NAMES+="${IFS}${arg}"
+            ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+
+
+for MODULE_NAME in $MODULE_NAMES; do
+    find_paths PATH
+    find_paths LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+done
+
+echo "SEARCH_DIRS=$SEARCH_DIRS"
+
+find ${SEARCH_DIRS[@]} $findMask -type f \( -perm -u+x -o -perm -g+x -o -perm -o+x -o \
+    -name '*.so' -o -name '*.so.*' -o -name '*.la' \) -print 2> /dev/null |
+    sort -u > "$FILES_FILE"
+
+files=($(<"$FILES_FILE"))
+
+for target_file in "${files[@]}"; do
+    if ! file $target_file | grep ELF > /dev/null ; then 
+        continue
+    fi
+    if [[ $target_file != *.la ]]; then
+        ldd_output=$(ldd "$target_file" 2> /dev/null)
+        MISSING_LIBS=$(
+            expr='s/[[:space:]]*\([^[:space:]]*\) => not found/\1/p'
+            sed -n "$expr" <<< "$ldd_output"
+        )
+        REQUIRED_LIBS=$(
+            expr='s/^[[:space:]]*NEEDED[[:space:]]*\([^[:space:]]*\).*/\1/p';
+            objdump -x "$target_file" | grep NEEDED | sed "$expr" | sort -u
+        )
+        MISSING_LIBS=$(grep -F "$REQUIRED_LIBS" <<< "$MISSING_LIBS")
+
+        if [[ $MISSING_LIBS ]]; then
+            echo "obj $target_file" >> "$BROKEN_FILE"
+            echo "  broken $target_file (requires $MISSING_LIBS)"
+        fi
+    fi
+done
+