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.
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