Tracing build dependencies

[Jim Trigg]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 06:53:13PM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:53:51 -0400
> Jim Trigg <jtrigg at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
> > > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 01:19 pm, Jim Trigg wrote:
> > > > I remember seeing come across one of the FreeBSD lists (either ports,
> > > > stable, or questions) a shell script to show build dependencies of
> > > > installed ports (for use in determining whether installed ports are
> > > > orphans or not), but cannot now find it (either in my saved mail, in
> > > > the list archives, or through a web search).  Does anyone have such a
> > > > script?
> 
> I think you might be referring to a script I quickly wrote one day
> to use with pkg_cutleaves to find only build dependencies:
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040426103553.46157212.rpratt1950

That was indeed the message I was looking for; thanks!  I don't know
why my googling on lists.freebsd.org didn't find it...

> I rewrote that script after thinking about it a bit.  It had the
> drawbacks of having to have another database file and requiring it
> to be manually updated if you wanted it to reflect the current status
> of installed ports.
> 
> If all you need to know is that something depends on a port, then
> this might do what you want.  It uses ports/INDEX as its source which
> includes both build and run dependencies.  No extra databases are
> needed but it makes no distinction whether its a build or run
> dependency.

Actually, what I really want is to supply the output of pkg_cutleaves -c
and have it tell me which of those ports is a build dependency for another
installed port.  I'm going to work on that, now that I have the basic
concept...

Thanks,
Jim
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