Automatic dependency adding in 1.2.x ?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:08:39PM +0100, Pawel Pekala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2013-12-10 20:15 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >That is desired and there is no way to disable this feature, this is
> >done by introspecting the binaries to figure out the libraries they do
> >need, DEBUG_LEVEL=1 should show you the dependencies automatically
> >added.
> >
> >The point is then to totally disable the recursive dependencies we
> >have now and in long term to not make any difference between lib
> >dependencies and build dependencies.
> >
> >There is no magic behind that and that changes nothing for the
> >developper, the dependencies are added because they are needed for
> >example if glib brings icu and your program only uses glib the
> >developper has no way to figure out that depending on glib option he
> >may or may not add icu in the list of the dependencies.
> 
> I think you misunderstood me here, if dependency is pulled by direct
> one recorded in Makefile that's ok and it should work that way. I'm
> talking about other situation, with tinycdb today when I installed
> www/cblog for testing purposes, it had already recorded
> databases/tinycdb as dependency despite I didn't fixed BUILD,
> LIB_DEPENDS - automatically and was not pulled in by any other deps for
> sure.
> 
> What I wanted to (poorly) describe earlier - before 1.2.x update you
> could ldd(1) all binaries in certain package and get list of needed
> libraries to function. Then you could compare this list to what
> recorded dependencies provide and missing libraries would point you to
> not recorded, missing deps in the end. I wrote this script that done it:
> 
> https://github.com/ppekala/freebsd-ports-tools/blob/master/pkg-lib-check
> 
> It helped me to find some of those missing dependencies I'm trying to
> whine about :)
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/181764
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/182163
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/182166 and so on.
> 
> My point is - now this ability is gone and it sucks from developer
> perspective, makes finding this type of bugs harder.


Poudriere does it :)
Another solution is:
pkg query "%B" cblog

It will show you all libraries required by cblog :) (including the one it
provides if any)

regards,
Bapt
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