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

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 11:50:57PM +0100, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> 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?

Probably. I run pacman from git, so namcap doesn't work for me.