[aur-general] Easy way to find out package dependencies

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:35:40PM +0100, oliver wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there an easy way to find out, which package dependencies
> a package has?
> 
> Say, i want to write the PKGBUILD for a package,
> and the compilation on my system (.7configure/cmake and make)
> does work without problems.
> 
> Then I don't get a message about missing libraries.
> So, it's easy to compile the stuff, but needs some
> effort to find out the dependencies.
> 
> Possibly with ldd the linked stuff can be found out,
> but the library names not necessarily are the same as
> the names of the package that provide these libraries.
> 
> So, it may need some effort to find out the packages.
> 
> Is there an easy way to find out the package names?
> 
> Maybe someone already has written a script that
> reverse-lookups the package names from ldd-output?
> 
> Any ideas on that?
> 
> 
> Ciao,
>    Oliver

This is probably what you're looking for:

https://github.com/falconindy/bin-scripts/blob/master/elf2pkgs

You can get a concise list by running this over the pkg/ directory after
building:

  find pkg/ -type f -executable -exec elf2pkgs {} + 2>/dev/null

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