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

[Johannes Löthberg]

On 02/03/2013 23:46, Dave Reisner wrote:
> 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
> 
> d

Wouldn't it be easier to just use namcap, or am I missing something?