build system not seeing perl deps

[sean]

Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Op vrijdag 03-08-2007 om 18:58 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef sean:
>> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
>> Package perl-devel needs perl(ExtUtils::Embed), this is not 
>> available.
>> Complete!
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I also stumbled across this problem. 'Solved' it by manually installing
> the perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker package.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik van Pienbroek
> 
> 
  Thanks. That worked for me.

But if the build system doesn't catch it, the package will 
be much less likely to get the explicit Provides in the 
specfile it needs.

sean