On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:17:41AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > After the recent questions how to automatically create a list > of packages that belong to the build dependencies line I've wrote > a perl script, that reads the file generated by > # strace -f -F -e trace=file -o /tmp/trace debuild > and produces a list like: > binutils (>= 2.9.5.0.22-4) > cpp (>= 1:2.95.2-6) > debhelper (>= 2.0.82) > dpkg-dev (>= 1.6.9) > file (>= 3.28-1) > gcc (>= 1:2.95.2-6) > It takes essential packages and the build-essentials list into account.
Sorry to say but this script is fairly useless for most people. Strace cannot follow vfork() (yes I know -F says it will, but according to the maintainer, and my own tests, it does not work at all). Once make -C executed, strace stopped showing output. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
