Edward Avis wrote:
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>On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Michael Brown wrote:
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>[compiling Cooker from scratch, installing only the BuildRequires
>packages as needed]
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>>>But, the main problem is that the BuildRequires aren't accurate at the
>>>moment in cooker. Without the correct BuilRequires you're going to
>>>encounter many compile problems. I'm working on fixing them at the
>>>moment, but There are still +/- 380 packages that aren't compiling....
>>>
>>How are you detecting problems caused by 'non-fatal' missing
>>BuildRequires? As an example: the recent missing requirement for
>>libbzip2_1-devel and libtiff3-devel in kdelibs. If these are not
>>installed then the package will be built without support for the relevant
>>components, but no errors will be flagged.
>>
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>This is really a flaw in the GNU configure mechanism. It would be nice
>if autoconf's configure scripts allowed you to say:
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>% ./configure --definitely-use-libtiff
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Then the developer would need to put that in the .spec file --> %configure
--definitely-use-libtiff
Why not then put in a BuildRequires libtiff-devel?
>which would die if the library were not available, rather than quietly
>leaving out that functionality as at present.
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>At least, I don't think there is currently a way to specify this -
>anyone know otherwise?
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>Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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