Spec depends on BuildRequires?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Mar 11 15:29:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> 
> Would seem to fail always to me.  Here's something less fragile:
> 
> (forgive the long-line)
> %global my_perl_req %(perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts 2> /dev/null |
> egrep -o '/[^[:space:]]*CORE' | head -1)
> 
> %if "%{?my_perl_req}" != "%{nil}"
> Requires: %{?my_perl_req}
> %endif

This is less fragile, but presumably it leaves out the dependency
(which I need to have)?

Rich.

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