Re: Bug#90809: failed autobuild of tclx8.2_8.2.0-5 (m68k): missing groff build-depends
> Package: tclx8.2
> Version: 8.2.0-5
> Severity: serious
>
> tclx8.2 fails to autobuild due to missing nroff, provided by groff. groff
> isn't build essential so please add groff to build-depends.
>
> Michael
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> [...]
> Error: Error extracting help from: bldmanhelp.tmp
> couldn't execute "nroff": no such file or directory
> while executing
> "open "| nroff -man | col $colArgs > $tmpFile" w"
> (procedure "ExtractNroffHelp" line 20)
> invoked from within
> "ExtractNroffHelp $matchInfo(handle) $matchInfo(line)"
> while executing a match command
> invoked from within
> "scanfile $nroffScanCT $manPageFH"
> (procedure "ProcessNroffFile" line 12)
> invoked from within
> "ProcessNroffFile $manFile"
> (procedure "buildhelp" line 69)
> invoked from within
> "buildhelp $helpDir $brief [list $tmpFile]"
>
The nroff command is executed by a tcl script invoked by the makefile
to process some tcl man pages. Finding all such dependencies would mean
examining every source file.
Is there any tool or trick to find automatically all build dependencies
needed to compile a package?
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