Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23:30 -0800 (PST), Joseph Pesco > <[email protected]> wrote: > It's better just to document what your dependencies are, > and trust that the package maintainers can figure out > the rest. [...] > The package maintainers then have single, one-liner > test case to check that the dependencies are actually > satisfied in the generated system image.
This is a good point: package maintainers can figure out a lot of stuff. The other thing you can do is use autotools to figure out which programs are needed. There is a chapter in the Autoconf Manual on Portable Shell programming[1] which should provide some guidance. Joel Footnotes: [1] http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.68/html_node/Portable-Shell.html#Portable-Shell -- Joel J. Adamson <[email protected]> Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://adamsonj.ninth.su Free Software Foundation Member #8164 Join the FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=8164
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