Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 8th Aug 2008 03:58 UTC
"The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make independent software vendors and other programmers start to love developing for Linux." This program checks your application against different versions of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), and against all the Linux distributions in the LSB Database. After the test is done it will present a report about the compatibility status of your application with the various distributions, and which external libraries and interfaces your application uses.
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2006-01-04
Unfortunately, sometimes the odd dependency gets in there without you realising you're depending on it.
Even more confusing can be libraries that that can have different features/sub-dependencies depending on what options it was compiled with. Some libraries I have used even install different headers depending what how you compiled them.
Every piece of software has a certain set of assumptions about the end-users computer (e.g. sh is installed is a fair assumption), but sometimes one mistakenly makes the wrong assumption: "I thought that was present on every system" type assumptions. Often it's best to create a chroot build environment only containing your expected dependencies built with the most minimal features, just to test it.
Of course, the every once in a while I think developers expect you to read the source code yourself and work out the dependencies