On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Steven Lake wrote: > I'm thinking it was ld or something that I used. It gave the > dependency for a given program, then listed either the path to the file or > said it was "not found". That's mostly what I'm looking at. I'm trying to > figure out which dependencies are missing for a given program so I can > figure out what I need to do to fix it.
It sounds like what you are thinking of is the ldd(1) command, which lists which dynamically linked libraries a program is linked against, and gives the path to the shared library if ldd can find it. This is something quite different than the dependencies ports/packages can have between each other. > > At 04:39 PM 3/26/2006 -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > >On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Steven Lake wrote: > > > >> Hmm, definitely useful, but not quite what I'm looking for. > > > >What precisely *are* you looking for? A little detail would go a long way > >here. That is: what is it that won't run? Why do you think it's a > >dependency issue? What have you already tried? > > > >Rereading your original post, it looks like you want to know not only what > >the dependencies are, but also which ones are not installed. Correct? > >Assuming yes, then you could do something like this (using my previous > >firefox example): > >$ pkg_info -Rr firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 > >Information for firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1: > > > >Depends on: > >Dependency: pkgconfig-0.20 > >Dependency: expat-2.0.0_1 > >[blah blah] > > > >...then do a pkg_info on each item listed, e.g. > >$ pkg_info pkgconfig-0.20 > >...and so on for each listed dependency. For each one, you will either get > >a rash of information (meaning the package is installed) or "pkg_info: > >can't find package 'foobar' installed or in a file!" (meaning the package > >is not installed). There is probably a more automated, less tedious way to > >do this, but I'm drawing a blank right now. > > > >Then again, it may be an entirely different issue - it could be a matter > >of packages being confused about what their dependencies really are. You > >may see this when trying to update. This can be fixed using cvsup, pkgdb, > >portsdb and friends. See the many recent threads about updating ports > >and/or packages. > > > >>At 01:40 PM 3/26/2006 -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > >>>On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Steven Lake wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi all. Ok, I'm having a total brain fart today. I've got a > >>>>few apps that won't run and I need to find out the list of > >>>>dependencies and what they're missing. But I can't remember for the > >>>>life of me what the command I need is to view that list. I remember > >>>>using it once where it would list the dependencies and tell either > >>>>where they existed, or if they didn't exist, what the missing file > >>>>was. Anyone remember that command? Thanks. > >>>I use pkg_info -Rr <pkg_name>, where <pkg_name> is the exact name of the > >>>package. The -Rr options will tell you what the package depends on, and > >>>what depends on the package. To find the exact package name, I do (for > >>>example) pkg_info | grep firefox, which returns: > >>> firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > >>>...and the I know to do pkg_info -Rr firefox-1.5.0.1_1,1 > > > >-- > >Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
