On 5/4/07, Kevin Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4 May 2007, at 19:03, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > On 5/4/07, William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a simple way to find shlib dependencies for a package? > >> > >> I couldn't find one, so I made a shell script > >> > >> http://xanana.ucsc.edu/Library/init/zsh/local-functions/darwin/ > >> depfinder > >> > >> It examines the contents of a debian archive (whose filename you > >> supply as the argument) for binaries and dynamic libraries and then > >> uses dpkg -S to come up with the package names. It also does a bit of > >> a packaging reality check. > >> > >> I've made some packaging errors lately so I thought I should try to > >> redeem myself. I hope someone finds this useful, at least for a > >> laugh. > >> > >> > >> Bill > >> > > Cool. I've been using one that is due to J.-F. Mertens that does > > installed packages: > > > > # !/bin/sh > > # `otool_deps <pkgs>` is the (possibly empty, alphabetically > > # sorted) comma-separated list of pkgs, > > # except for those in the argument list, followed by a newline, on > > # which those in the argument list depend according to otool -L. > > dpkg -L $@|xargs file|fgrep 'Mach-O'|cut -f1 -d:|xargs otool -L > > 2>/dev/null|egrep -v ':$'|sort -u|sed -r -e 's,[[:space:]]+,,' -e 's, > > .*,,'|xargs dpkg -S 2>/dev/null|cut -f1 -d:|sort -u|fgrep -vx "`tr ' ' > > '\n' <<<$*`"|xargs|sed -r -e 's; ;, ;g' > > > > Caveat: it seems to rely on flags used in the fink version of sed. > > > > > > I've got one of my own that isn't as sophisticated, but simply prints > > out every library linked by every file in a package. > > > > It would be nice to have some maintainer functions like this, either > in fink, or in some official fink utility. That way these useful > functions would get some visibility, and proper testing. I have > frequently wished for an easy way to identify required dependencies. > > Kevin Horton > Ottawa, Canada > > >
At one point the developers were trying to collect a suite of maintainer tools. Check out http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/fink-maintainertools --I haven't looked at it yet, but I'm going to. :-) -- Alexander K. Hansen (akh) Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
