libGL and libGLU buildtime dependancy virtualization

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Jul 6 21:38:48 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 03:40 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Example for X.Org X11 would be adding the following to our 
> xorg-x11-devel subpackage dependancy information:
> 
> %define libGL_version 1.2
> ...
> Provides: libGL-devel = %{libGL_version}
> 
> The same would be done for libGLU, and possibly other libraries.  
> RPM packagers could then start using the virtual BuildRequires to
> pick up the correct libGL headers, etc.:

This seems reasonably sane to me and allows us to split the GL-devel
bits out into separate packaging at a later point if we need to/want to.

Jeremy





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