On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote:
So I was wondering, how do I figure out direct dependencies? And
how do I figure out whether these should be LIB_DEPENDS,
BUILD_DEPENDS or RUN_DEPENDS or some other?
The fine documentation in the Porters Handbook discusses this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
makefile-depend.html
Is there a trick to trace the dependencies, and figure out which
port provides that dependency? - except for building on a clean
machine and install stuff until things work?
You can use pkg_which to tell you which port a given file in part of;
so, for example, if your port creates an executable called "foo", run
"ldd foo" and see which libraries it links against; the ones in /usr/
local/lib almost certainly should be listed as LIB_DEPENDS, for example.
However, there is no real substitute for paying attention to the
documentation of the project and/or the GNU autoconfig (ie ./
configure file) or similar mechanism used to test for and link
against optional dependencies.
--
-Chuck
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