[aur-general] depenency checker
Is there a tool to find all the depenencies for a PKGBUILD. i know of namcap, but is there a better one?
Manual labour :) namcap is already as good as it can be..any better would mean magic. But soon..soon.
I have created yet another PKG in aur. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26951
Reading the build system may help, or trying to build in a very minimal chroot to see what deps are complained about. -AT
Is there a tool to extract human readable dependencies from a configure.ac ?
I thinks it is here that you can find the most accurate dependencies,
indeed some softs do not have a good README or explanations on their
website...
2009/6/2 Andrei Thorp
Reading the build system may help, or trying to build in a very minimal chroot to see what deps are complained about.
-AT
Cilyan Olowen wrote:
Is there a tool to extract human readable dependencies from a configure.ac ? I thinks it is here that you can find the most accurate dependencies, indeed some softs do not have a good README or explanations on their website...
You're right, configure.ac is a good place to look for dependencies and the way the package is supposed to be built. However, this is a manual process and as far as I know there isn't an automatic way to extract this information.
Not to mention that software uses all sorts of crap now, like scons and cmake :) -AT
participants (5)
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Andrei Thorp
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Cilyan Olowen
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Evangelos Foutras
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Nathan Owe.
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Ray Rashif