On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 22:32 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Duncan Coutts wrote:
* inability to automatically find/generate dependencies on external packages like C libraries. Many packages that use FFI need to link to non-standard C libs and it's not always obvious what packages they need. Of course, specifying external libs is not simple since different platforms often call them different things, but perhaps we could have some non-binding hint fields. Or perhaps we should just try and guess based on the names of the libs that need to be linked to (though that doesn't cover deps on other programs rather than C libs).
How about asking the distribution specific package manager program to which package the library file belongs? However, this requires that the dependent package is installed on the packaging machine.
Yes, for C libraries it's a pretty good hint. It doesn't help us with dependencies on programs or non-C libs however. Duncan