Hi, Am Freitag, den 11.03.2011, 09:58 +0000 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:51:50 -0800 > Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > > >get-build-deps > > > > > Is this an alias for "apt-get build-dep $1"? > > > > No, it's a tool that's been long missing from a Debian as a standard > > interface - "install the build-dependencies for the package in my current > > directory". > > > > This may not be the best implementation/name/semantics, but there's > > definitely a gap to be closed there, as 'dpkg-checkbuilddeps' provides no > > easy way to feed the missing package list to apt, and 'apt-get build-deps' > > can't look at the local directory. > > embuilddeps, part of the xapt package, can now be used for that - > currently in unstable. It also does cross-dependencies, for such time > as we still need those to be done via xapt and dpkg-cross. embuilddeps > uses the Dpkg perl modules directly and passes the results to apt-get, > optionally also passing the full list (not including packages you've > already got installed) to xapt for processing via dpkg-cross. If you > don't specify an architecture to embuilddeps, it will do just what you > outlined.
There is also this in haskell-debian-utils, although not very widely
advocated:
* apt-get-build-depends:
Tool which will parse the Build-Depends{-Indep} lines from debian/control
and apt-get install the required packages
see http://packages.debian.org/sid/haskell-debian-utils
Some more results from someone’s itch-scratching.
Greetings,
Joachim
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