How to determine build dependency

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi, 

How to determine build dependencies? 

I was using 'dpkg-depcheck -d ./configure ...', but that seems to have 
included much more than necessary. 

For example for emacs, using motif instead of gtk3, I get [1], but I 
don't think x11proto-randr-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxrandr-dev, libgl1-
mesa-glx, libexpat1, libpopt0, & libxdmcp6, etc should be in the list. 

Any help? 

Thanks


[1]

dpkg-depcheck -d ./configure --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --
program-suffix="-snapshot" --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=motif  --with-
toolkit-scroll-bars  --without-all --with-compress-info --with-gpm --with-
x --with-xft --with-libotf --with-xim --with-dbus 
Packages needed:
  x11proto-randr-dev
  mime-support
  lesstif2-dev
  libglib2.0-0:i386
  libpthread-stubs0-dev:i386
  libxau6:i386
  liblockfile-dev
  libxcb1:i386
  libxau-dev:i386
  libgpm-dev:i386
  mawk
  libxft-dev
  x11proto-xext-dev
  libxinerama-dev:i386
  pkg-config
  libdbus-1-dev:i386
  libfreetype6-dev
  libxdmcp-dev:i386
  tzdata
  x11proto-kb-dev
  libxext6:i386
  x11proto-xinerama-dev
  libfontconfig1-dev
  libotf-dev
  libxrandr-dev
  libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
  libexpat1:i386
  libdbus-1-3:i386
  libxcb1-dev:i386
  xutils-dev
  libncurses5-dev
  x11proto-render-dev
  libpopt0:i386
  libxdmcp6:i386