Re: [Savannah-users] Yet another gpl license question

[Joel J. Adamson]

Kaz Kylheku <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23:30 -0800 (PST), Joseph Pesco
> <address@hidden> 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

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