ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm

[Ian . Stark]

> ghc-4.06-1.src.rpm
> has a problem.  It builds OK (taking several hours on my machine) till
> the very end, then dies trying to invoke some program called db2dvi.
> I can't find a redhat package that contains this.

I have heard that rpm version 3 now contains a way to specify
build-time requirements (as distinct from install-time).  This is a
particular problem when devising an RPM for a package written in any
language which gcc cannot compile.

Can anyone confirm that version 3 does have this feature?  Is it
sufficient to describe the bootstrapping of self-compiling
compilers?

Ian Stark
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Ian Stark                         http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/stark
LFCS, Division of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland