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CHECK-LIB-DEPENDS(1) General Commands Manual CHECK-LIB-DEPENDS(1)

check-lib-dependsscan port for shared libraries

check-lib-depends [-fimqx] [-B destdir] [-d pkgrepo] [-D directory] [-F missing] [-O dest] [-S VAR=value] [-s source] [package ...]

check-lib-depends scans a port or package for shared libraries, and verify that all of them are properly recorded.

check-lib-depends can either scan files from a built port after the fake stage from the WRKINST directory, or look directly inside a package.

Likewise, it can also verify dependencies of installed packages, or figure them out directly from the port directory.

check-lib-depends actually consists of two distinct stages:

The options are as follows:

destdir
Scan files under destdir.
pkgrepo
Look for all needed packages under directory pkgrepo.
directory
Create debug log files under directory that show in more details the run of objdump(1).
Give full reports of every file that requires a missing library.
missing
Works in tandem with -S. Allow backsubstituting even if the missing library is actually not part of the actual WANTLIB of the package. Mostly used to waive the presence of pthread, a mandatory dependency of C++ libraries on some architectures.
Read packing-list from standard input.
Always show progress-meter, even if not run from terminal.
dest
Save result of first stage in file dest.
Be quiet, do not emit ‘Extra:’ wantlibs unless there's also an actual problem.
var=value
recognize list of libraries listed in a variable, and replace said list with variable value. For instance, -S COMPILER_LIBCXX=stdc++ will replace ‘stdc++’ with ‘${COMPILER_LIBCXX}’ in WANTLIB lists for compatibility with both clang and gcc. Order matters. The first -S option will be handled first.
src
Don't scan, directly read result of first stage from file src.
Don't show progress-meter, even if run from terminal.

If no package is given, and the -i option is used, check-lib-depends will retrieve the packing-list from stdin, and scan the package according to other options.

ldd(1), objdump(1), bsd.port.mk(5), elf(5)

Currently, check-lib-depends doesn't handle libraries living in subdirectories of ‘${LOCALBASE}’ correctly.

June 21, 2021 OpenBSD-7.3