Spec depends on BuildRequires?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Mar 11 13:13:58 UTC 2008


I've got a spec file which (edited) says:

  BuildRequires:  perl
  BuildRequires:  perl-ExtUtils-Embed

  Requires: %(perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts | egrep -o '/[^[:space:]]*CORE' | head -1)

It fails occasionally (but by no means always) in Koji, as for example
here:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=510764

The failure seems to be because perl-ExtUtils-Embed isn't installed by
the time we evaluate the expression in the 'Requires' statement.

So I guess we can't have a spec file which evaluates an expression
which needs some BR's to work.  Is there some standard way to work
around this problem?

Rich.

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