Documenting a ports depedency tree?

[Niclas Zeising]

On 1/16/07, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:32:13PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote:
> > stan wrote:
> > >Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given port?
> > >
> > >EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d & e, which in turn depend on z,
> > >I'd like to print out this dependency list.
> > >
> > >
> > A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching.
> >
> > montreal# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr
> > montreal# make pretty-print-run-depends-list
> > This port requires package(s) "ImageMagick-6.2.9.8 curl-7.16.0_1
> > expat-2.0.0_1 fontconfig-2.3.2_6,1 freetype2-2.2.1_1 gettext-0.14.5_2
> > ghostscript-gnu-7.07_15 gnupg-1.4.6_3 gocr-0.43 gsfonts-8.11_2
> > jasper-1.701.0_1 jbigkit-1.6 jpeg-6b_4 lcms-1.16,1 libdrm-2.0.2
> > libfpx-1.2.0.12 libiconv-1.9.2_2 libltdl-1.5.22 libungif-4.1.4_2
> > libxml2-2.6.26 mpeg2codec-1.2_1 netpbm-10.26.37 p5-Archive-Tar-1.30
> > p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1 p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.003 p5-Compress-Zlib-2.002
> > p5-Digest-1.15 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.36
> > p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11 p5-GSSAPI-0.23 p5-HTML-Parser-3.55
> > p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.003 p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.002
> > p5-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51_1 p5-IO-Socket-SSL-1.02 p5-IO-String-1.08
> > p5-IO-Zlib-1.04_1 p5-MIME-Base64-3.07 p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7_3
> > p5-Mail-Tools-1.74 p5-Math-BigInt-1.77 p5-Net-1.19,1 p5-Net-DNS-0.59
> > p5-Net-IP-1.25 p5-Net-SSLeay-1.30_1 p5-PathTools-3.24
> > p5-Scalar-List-Utils-1.19,1 p5-Socket6-0.19 p5-String-Approx-3.26
> > p5-URI-1.35 p5-libwww-5.805 perl-5.8.8 pkg-config-0.21 png-1.2.14
> > tcl-8.4.13_1,1 tiff-3.8.2_1 tk-8.4.13,2 xorg-libraries-6.9.0" to run.
> > montreal# pretty-print-build-depends-list
> > pretty-print-build-depends-list: Command not found.
> > montreal# make pretty-print-build-depends-list
> > This port requires package(s) "perl-5.8.8" to build.
> > montreal#
> >
> > Kinda crappy looking.  You can also 'make readmes" to generate HTML
> > readme files, but I don't believe it recurses.
> >
> > Anyone else want to chime in?
> >
> Thanks, that's exactly what I needed.
>
> A dollowup question, if I might? Are all the various make targets for the
> ports tree documented anywhere?
>

Most of them are documented in the ports(7) manpage, at least the
targets regarding ports. make(4) might have some info as well.