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-/**
- * @license
- * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
- * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
- */
-
-import {dirname, resolve} from 'canonical-path';
-import {existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync} from 'fs';
-import {find} from 'shelljs';
-
-import {isDefined} from '../utils';
-
-export const NGCC_VERSION = '0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER';
-
-/**
- * Represents an entry point to a package or sub-package.
- *
- * It exposes the absolute path to the entry point file and a method to get the `.d.ts` file that
- * corresponds to any source file that belongs to the package (assuming source files and `.d.ts`
- * files have the same directory layout).
- */
-export class EntryPoint {
-  entryFileName: string;
-  entryRoot: string;
-  dtsEntryRoot: string;
-
-  /**
-   * @param packageRoot The absolute path to the root directory that contains the package.
-   * @param relativeEntryPath The relative path to the entry point file.
-   * @param relativeDtsEntryPath The relative path to the `.d.ts` entry point file.
-   */
-  constructor(public packageRoot: string, relativeEntryPath: string, relativeDtsEntryPath: string) {
-    this.entryFileName = resolve(packageRoot, relativeEntryPath);
-    this.entryRoot = dirname(this.entryFileName);
-    const dtsEntryFileName = resolve(packageRoot, relativeDtsEntryPath);
-    this.dtsEntryRoot = dirname(dtsEntryFileName);
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Match paths to `package.json` files.
- */
-const PACKAGE_JSON_REGEX = /\/package\.json$/;
-
-/**
- * Match paths that have a `node_modules` segment at the start or in the middle.
- */
-const NODE_MODULES_REGEX = /(?:^|\/)node_modules\//;
-
-/**
- * Search the `rootDirectory` and its subdirectories to find `package.json` files.
- * It ignores node dependencies, i.e. those under `node_modules` directories.
- *
- * @param rootDirectory The directory in which we should search.
- */
-export function findAllPackageJsonFiles(rootDirectory: string): string[] {
-  // TODO(gkalpak): Investigate whether skipping `node_modules/` directories (instead of traversing
-  //                them and filtering out the results later) makes a noticeable difference.
-  const paths = Array.from(find(rootDirectory));
-  return paths.filter(
-      path => PACKAGE_JSON_REGEX.test(path) &&
-          !NODE_MODULES_REGEX.test(path.slice(rootDirectory.length)));
-}
-
-/**
- * Identify the entry points of a collection of package.json files.
- *
- * @param packageJsonPaths A collection of absolute paths to the package.json files.
- * @param format The format of the entry points to look for within the package.
- *
- * @returns A collection of `EntryPoint`s that correspond to entry points for the package.
- */
-export function getEntryPoints(packageJsonPaths: string[], format: string): EntryPoint[] {
-  const entryPoints =
-      packageJsonPaths
-          .map(packageJsonPath => {
-            const entryPointPackageJson = JSON.parse(readFileSync(packageJsonPath, 'utf8'));
-            const entryPointPath: string|undefined = entryPointPackageJson[format];
-            if (!entryPointPath) {
-              return undefined;
-            }
-            const dtsEntryPointPath = entryPointPackageJson.typings || entryPointPath;
-            return new EntryPoint(dirname(packageJsonPath), entryPointPath, dtsEntryPointPath);
-          })
-          .filter(isDefined);
-  return entryPoints;
-}
-
-function getMarkerPath(packageJsonPath: string, format: string) {
-  return resolve(dirname(packageJsonPath), `__modified_by_ngcc_for_${format}__`);
-}
-
-export function checkMarkerFile(packageJsonPath: string, format: string) {
-  const markerPath = getMarkerPath(packageJsonPath, format);
-  const markerExists = existsSync(markerPath);
-  if (markerExists) {
-    const previousVersion = readFileSync(markerPath, 'utf8');
-    if (previousVersion !== NGCC_VERSION) {
-      throw new Error(
-          'The ngcc compiler has changed since the last ngcc build.\n' +
-          'Please completely remove `node_modules` and try again.');
-    }
-  }
-  return markerExists;
-}
-
-export function writeMarkerFile(packageJsonPath: string, format: string) {
-  const markerPath = getMarkerPath(packageJsonPath, format);
-  writeFileSync(markerPath, NGCC_VERSION, 'utf8');
-}
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