On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:39:16AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Dne 15.12.2013 11:55, Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a): > >On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:57:00AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > >>On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > >>>* It might be interesting to have some script, which tries to audit > >>>BR, e.g. it removes all BR first and then adds them back as they are > >>>required. This could reveal some BR which are actually not needed > >>>anymore, but are listed among BR from historic reasons. > >>This is kind of hard to do without extensive functional tests, because it > >>may be that a BR was added because the build completes happily without it > >>but misses the related functionality. (This is pretty common, I think.) > >auto-buildrequires (http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/) > >uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to find out what BuildRequires are packages > >are actually touched during the build. Therefore it does not suffer > >from this problem. > > > >Rich. > > > > Unfortunately, there are some BR which are needed to pass the test > suite, there are also other languages, which does not produce ELF > files .... So it might help, but it does not solve everything. auto-buildrequires will find all those dependencies. The only thing it won't probe are statically linked binaries. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
