[SOLVED] way to find dependencies from source code?

babagau · 01-15-2011, 09:19 AM

Is there a way to find the dependencies from the source code in the directory produced by the tarball? All I do till now is ./configure, see the missing lib etc, install it, again ./configure, see missing lib, install it, and so on. Is there a way to have all the missing dependencies before configuring the program for the system, maybe with a proper configure flag? But ./configure -h did not show anything that could help.

thanks a lot,
babagau

lugoteehalt · 01-15-2011, 10:02 AM

One of the files will contain a list of dependencies, among other things. Can't remember which one, INSTALL? readme? ....

knudfl · 01-15-2011, 12:22 PM

... And then some have a section "Prerequisites" in the online documentation.

For the "10,000" Ubuntu sources, you have a dependency list, example ..
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/audacious

Or you can use the command : apt-get build-dep <source-name>

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babagau · 01-16-2011, 03:05 PM

thank you very much, the prerequisites (build-depends) at the packages webpage is a fine solution.