[aur-general] depenency checker

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 11:14:23 EDT 2009


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.


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