Re: Automatically satisfying Build-Depends from local control file

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:19:27PM -0700, Nikolaus Rath a écrit :
> 
> When downloading a source package from somewhere else, I often find
> myself in the situation that after..
> 
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
> [...]
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libreadline6-dev libncursesw5-dev (>= 5.3) libbz2-dev liblzma-dev libgdbm-dev libdb-dev tk8.5-dev blt-dev (>= 2.4z) libbluetooth-dev libffi-dev (>= 3.0.5) xvfb
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
> 
> ...I have to manually/painfully construct the command line...

Hi Nikolaus,

this is a question that is more appropriate for the debian-mentors mailing list.

The tool you are looking for is "mk-build-deps" from the package "devscripts".

Cheers,

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan