On 23/07/2020 15:45, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
Am 23/07/2020 um 15:10 schrieb Budi via aur-general:
h\How to know what dependencies only need to put (surely not all) I proceed as follows:
1. ignore anything in base-devel
On 7/23/20 9:17 AM, alad via aur-general wrote: base-devel is for makedepends only, base is for depends. So? base-devel contains programs that can be used during runtime, like gawk.
2. include libraries listed in ldd, if the package includes a compiled executable This is wrong. If myprog links *only* to libfoo.so, and internally libfoo.so links to libbar.so, ldd will show both libfoo.so and libbar.so
Instead use readelf -d and look for lines containing "NEEDED". Or use lddtree (from the pax-utils package) to get a tree-based view of a program's dependencies.
ldd is completely inaccurate and misleading for this purpose.
Hmm, you're right - last I checked libraries (for neomutt), I used readelf -d. I guess it's been too long. Alad
3. include external commands if they are required (and not already in base-devel)
The second point is not mandated (you can depend on a package fulfilling the needed library depends, transitively), though helpful when listing rebuilds. Otherwise, see the packaging guidelines on the wiki.
(inb4 10 pages of discussion after a 1-sentence question)