Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:14:46 +0100 From: Bernard Higonnet <bthcom@higonnet.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to find out which port loads which library? Message-ID: <51215656.1050800@higonnet.net> In-Reply-To: <CADLo83-nsAuUnrHVvkfDC_TC-Q9JL=ggn6%2BpdAYKFe16%2B55B%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> References: <51210EAD.3010009@higonnet.net> <20130217172125.GA63086@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> <CADLo83-nsAuUnrHVvkfDC_TC-Q9JL=ggn6%2BpdAYKFe16%2B55B%2Bg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17-Feb-13 22:56, Chris Rees wrote:
>
> On 17 Feb 2013 17:31, "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" <fonz@skysmurf.nl
> <mailto:fonz@skysmurf.nl>> wrote:
> >
> > Bernard Higonnet wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a simple, direct, complete, and unequivocal way to find out
> > > which port(s) install which libraries?
> >
> > Something like this perhaps?
> > # grep libfoobar.so /usr/ports/*/*/pkg-plist
>
> Most shells won't allow an argument list that long.
>
> % find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name pkg-plist -exec grep libfoobar.so \{} \;
>
> has been shown to be faster than hacking around arg list limits with
> echo | xargs.
>
> Unfortunately neither method works with automatically generated plists....
I did in fact bump into too lengthy an argument list.
An alternative to your suggestion which worked for me was a for/do loop
in bash.
Thanks to both
Bernard Higonnet
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