Re: Build-Depends
Thanks for this script, Ben! It does the trick!
Take care,
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:24:09AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:46:00AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:16:53PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > > > Greetings! What's the best way to systematically determine build
> > > > dependencies for existing packages?
> > >
> > > Well, one thing is to look at the runtime libs which are required. You most
> > > likely need the runtime libs packages for all your -dev dependencies. In
> > > addition you can log the file opens (strace) while you build. And then
> > > search all those files in the package list. Actually this sounds like a good
> > > idea. Perhaps fakeroots lib has some support for that? I think there are
> > > some "make install" watchers out there which trap writing, so reading should
> > > be done as easyly.
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > In fact, fakeroot /should/ be capable of this, but is buggy and
> > doesn't perform as documented. I had a discussion with the fakeroot
> > author about this a long time ago (say, 18 months?) and he said he was
> > planning to rework it.
> >
> > A script to run build under strace -e trace=file and then use dpkg -S
> > to find the files would also work; I think it's pretty slow, and I'm
> > sure I remember another disadvantage (but I can't remember it). Maybe
> > someone would like to hack something together.
>
> It's been around for almost a year now I think (well over 6 months
> atleast).
>
> http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/
>
> Get the genbuilddeps source and build it (the only real binary is the
> libvfork, which wraps vfork so strace can follow it). It's not perfect,
> but it's a good start. It will get *everything* used to build your
> package, but because of dpkg-dev, it will always show perl. It also (as
> someone pointed out) does not traverse the package list to reduce it
> down. Also, on my system, since I use libnss-ldap, it picks up those
> extra things (so be aware of it).
>
> Ben
>
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