[Fedora-packaging] perl-* build dependencies

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Sun Mar 11 05:24:44 UTC 2007


On 3/10/07, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> Whether the perl/perl-devel split in devel (#226276) is here to stay or not,
> I'd like to make the attached change to the rpmdevtools perl spec template.
>
> Using perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) as the "base" build dependency is correct in
> the vast majority of cases, no matter in which package ExtUtils::MakeMaker is
> included.  Packages using Module::Build should change the dep to
> perl(Module::Build) - that'll pull in ExtUtils::MakeMaker too in case it's
> needed for Module::Build's non-compat mode.
[...]
> Comments, objections?

+1.  Spec conditionals tend to hurt my brain :)

               -Chris

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Chris Weyl
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