Re: checking for Build-Depends during build?
Stephen Langasek wrote:
> I'm taking on the packaging of a library that has a build-time dependency on
> the dev package from another library. Do any of the dpkg-dev or debhelper
> tools check for this line in the control file? I've poked around a bit in
> the source code, but haven't found what I'm looking for; even though the
> line is there in the control file, the first thing to complain about its
> absence is ./configure when it errors out. Is there something I can put in
> debian/rules that will catch this earlier in the build process, or is the
> line currently only useful to the autobuilders?
I wrote a utility the other day that can check build dependancies for
you. It may or may not be included in a future version of dpkg.
Currently, you can get it at
http://cvs.kitenet.net/joey-cvs/bin/dpkg-checkbuild
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