A binary dependencies should be added as package dependencies

Question

Not sure if this is the correct subforum, but I wish to raise an issue I encounter quite often, at least with "latest" (git/mercurial) packages.
As developers we often have a lot of development libraries installed, but unless you're a developer for the given project, there's a chance you haven't got the required libraries.
If the packages isn't listed the build breaks. Often far along, and this might happen several times while you add one and one package.
I don't want to think about how bad this problem can be for a "regular" user.
I wrote a small script that uses ldd on binaries and cross reference them to pacman to see what packages are required.
Hopefully some package managers can improve the script and improve the current situation.
#!/usr/bin/bash
BIN=$(which $1)
LIBS=$(ldd $BIN)
for libstring in $LIBS; do
if [[ $libstring =~ ^/.+\.so.+ ]]; then
FILE=$BASH_REMATCH
if [[ $(pacman -Qo $FILE) =~ ^/.+\.so.+\ is\ owned\ by\ (.+)\ .+$ ]]; then
package=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
echo $package
fi
fi
done
Usage:
$ required-packages nvim | sort | uniq
glibc
libtermkey
libuv
msgpack-git-neovim
unibilium

Answer 1

anatolik wrote:
simendsjo wrote:
karol wrote:Are you building in clean chroot?
No. What are you thinking of?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ean_Chroot
This helper might be useful as well
https://github.com/graysky2/clean-chroot-manager
I see. The infrastructure and documentation is in place, but not all maintainers are using best practices.
Guess this is a "solved" issue then.