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It seems that you +might submit something to the repositories that someone finds doesn't +install because of a missing dependency and you redo it. Then you can +retry that for up to five goes before it finally works? That seems +crazy. I must have misunderstood. + +I have no problem learning stuff, I do it every single day in my work +and it's what makes it so enjoyable, but maybe I need to take smaller +steps first? No idea where to start or how to go about doing that +though. As I might not have any work in a week's time it would +potentially be an ideal time to learn, but maybe I'm just not the right +person to do this? + + + +On 28/02/13 21:18, Dan Fandrich wrote: +><i> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 03:25:41PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: +</I>>><i> Build dependencies are usually specified in installation +</I>>><i> instructions. For humans, of course. You may also try to parse the +</I>>><i> outpout of ./configure (or equivalent) script. In both case, there is +</I>>><i> not garanty then every build dependency will get specified. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The other way is to work backwards by looking at the install dependencies +</I>><i> that rpmbuild discovered, or the NEEDED lines from objdump -x, and adding the +</I>><i> -devel versions of those libraries. That won't catch any compile-time-only +</I>><i> dependencies, though (like libtool, autoconf or flex) but it will give you +</I>><i> something to start from. Note also that some programs will automatically +</I>><i> discover what optional libraries are available at build time and configure +</I>><i> themselves accordingly. So, if you miss some BuildRequires, you might end up +</I>><i> with a binary that works but is missing features. +</I>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Dan +</I>><i> +</I></PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="024021.html">[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release libvirt-1.0.2-4.mga3 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="023368.html">[Mageia-dev] A question about BuildRequires and other RPM questions. +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#23367">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#23367">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#23367">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#23367">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |