Usually SlackBuilds on <a href="http://slackbuilds.org">slackbuilds.org</a> do not check dependancies. A list of dependancies should be placed in the <a href="http://slackbuilds.org/guidelines/">README</a> file to let the person downloading the script what other SlackBuilds/Packages they would need to install before running the script.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Shepard</b> <<a href="mailto:rshepard@appl-ecosys.com">rshepard@appl-ecosys.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm just starting to use SlackBuild scripts, primarily to make life easier<br>for me when upgrading applications I use.<br><br> One application that has always (even back when I used Red Hat) a PITA to<br>keep running with distribution upgrades is Gnucash. When I upgraded from
<br>-10.2 to -11.0 it stopped working. Over the past week or so I've spent too<br>much time trying to get either a package (from Ken's submission to<br><a href="http://linuxpackages.net">linuxpackages.net</a>) or source to successfully build and run. However, to make
<br>a long story short, only this morning did I realize that the gnucash tarball<br>contains a README.dependencies file. I'm working my way through that now,<br>checking that everything is here or building new packages (using
<br>checkinstall) of the latest versions. For a minor application it certainly<br>is a time consumer to keep it working.<br><br> I have a working gnucash.SlackBuild, modified from Ken's by using<br>components from another one (perhaps the
sqlite.SlackBuild). To make this<br>really usable, I would like to learn how to include dependency checking in<br>the script and, when necessary, to update/install missing gnome stuff first.<br>Of course, with a working script, I'll be happy to share it with you folks
<br>as well as the freerock and dropline folks, if they want it also.<br><br> Where should I start reading?<br><br>Rich<br><br>--<br>Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting<br>Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Accelerator(TM)
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