Re: [gentoo-soc] Auto dependency builder progress report. Week 7.

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

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On 16:29 Fri 15 Jul     , Александр Берсенев wrote:
> 2011/7/15 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>:
> > For DEPEND rather than RDEPEND ones, we'll want to make sure they're 
> > definitely listed in dependencies of the ebuild being used, rather 
> > than any level.
> 
> The main drawback of hooklib approach is an inability to track what
> files have been loaded while exec call(runtime libraries). Most
> RDEPENDS are naturally filtered here. Fusefs approach logs all file
> system events.
> 
> This is a difficult problem to distinguish RDEPENDS from DEPENDS. If I
> look on files accessed I can say if the dependency is runtime, but I
> haven't general strategy. I should watch more building logs of various
> packages to find a way.

You might be able to use src_test for this. If a package is accessed in 
src_test as well as src_configure/src_compile, it's RDEPEND. Clearly 
this won't work when src_test isn't defined, but it's a start.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Admin, Summer of Code
Gentoo Linux and X.Org
Blog: http://dberkholz.com


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