Le vendredi 05 juillet 2013 12:54:27, Mathieu Bridon a écrit : > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 12:45 +0200, Alain Portal wrote: > > Le jeudi 04 juillet 2013 19:44:04, John Reiser a écrit : > > > Today this > > > is not a circular dependency, although it may be impossible to rebuild > > > the world > > > from source only, without using some previous [or current] binary version > > > of graphite2-devel. > > > Once upon a time the dependencies were not as strict, or there was a > > > bootstrapping > > > stage that is not recorded in the .spec, or there was manual "cheating", > > > etc. > > > > This is clearly a circular dependency. > > I'm curious to know how koji do the job... > > Both are available in Fedora 19, so any of them can be rebuilt and have > its BuildRequires satisfied. > > The question is how did it get built the first time. And John already > responded to that in the part quoted above. > > Note that circular build dependencies are in fact quite common, for > example in Perl modules. > > What happens is that you'll bootstrap it by first building A, without > the BuildRequires on B (for example having B present in the buildroot is > only needed for an optional feature in A, or for the unit tests,...). > > Then you build B, with its build dependency on A. > > And finally you rebuild A, this time with the build dependency on B.
I tried to rebuild graphite2 with removing the BR texlive-*, the build failed because building graphite2 need at least cmake-2.8.0 and there is only 2.6.4 on CentOS :( -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
