bjnortier · October 7, 2010 12:09 · Oct 7, 2010 · Apr 10, 2010
diff --git a/build_flymake.sh b/build_flymake.sh
diff --git a/flymake.erl b/flymake.erl
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ normalize_rebar_error(Err, FileName) ->
 
 rebar_build(FileName, Path) ->
     file:set_cwd(Path),
-    Cmd = "./rebar compile 2>&1",
+    Cmd = "./rebar compile skip_deps=true 2>&1",
     [_|T] = string:tokens(os:cmd(Cmd), "\n"),
     Errors = [normalize_rebar_error(Err, FileName) || Err <- T],
     io:format("~s", [string:join(Errors, "\n") ++ "\n"]).

diff --git a/HOWTO.txt b/HOWTO.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+1) Use build_flymake.sh to compile flymake.erl into the eflymake script.
+2) Replace your existing eflymake script with the newly built one.
+
+NOTE: Don't forget to make a back up copy of your original eflymake in case this one has bugs!
diff --git a/build_flymake.sh b/build_flymake.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+erlc flymake.erl
+echo "#!/usr/bin/env escript" > eflymake
+cat flymake.beam >> eflymake
+chmod +x eflymake
diff --git a/flymake.erl b/flymake.erl
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+-module(flymake).
+
+-export([main/1]).
+
+-define(REBARS, ["..", "../../.."]).
+
+file_exists(FileName) ->
+    case file:read_file_info(FileName) of
+        {error, _} ->
+            false;
+        _ ->
+            true
+    end.
+
+locate_build_tool([]) ->
+    not_found;
+locate_build_tool([H|T]) ->
+    case file_exists(filename:join([H, "rebar"])) of
+        true ->
+            H;
+        false ->
+            locate_build_tool(T)
+    end.
+
+manual_compile(FileName) ->
+    compile:file(FileName, [warn_obsolete_guard, warn_unused_import,
+                            warn_shadow_vars, warn_export_vars,
+                            strong_validation, report,
+                            {i, "../include"},
+                            {outdir, "/tmp"}]).
+
+normalize_rebar_error(Err, FileName) ->
+    [_|T] = string:tokens(Err, ":"),
+    string:join([FileName|T], ":").
+
+rebar_build(FileName, Path) ->
+    file:set_cwd(Path),
+    Cmd = "./rebar compile 2>&1",
+    [_|T] = string:tokens(os:cmd(Cmd), "\n"),
+    Errors = [normalize_rebar_error(Err, FileName) || Err <- T],
+    io:format("~s", [string:join(Errors, "\n") ++ "\n"]).
+
+main([FileName]) ->
+    case locate_build_tool(?REBARS) of
+        not_found ->
+            manual_compile(FileName);
+        Rebar ->
+            rebar_build(FileName, Rebar)
+    end.