.spec file help - need buildrequires to depend on fedora version

[Paul Howarth]

On 22/06/09 03:15, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Carl Byington wrote:
>> My libpst package BuildRequires boost-devel, which works on older
>> systems (centos4 thru fedora 10), but for fedora 11 and devel, it
>> needs BuildRequires boost-python-devel. What is the preferred .spec
>> code to achieve that?
>
> Something like this:
>
> %if 0%{?fedora}>  10
> BuildRequires: boost-python-devel
> %else
> BuildRequires: boost-devel
> %endif

Or you could buildreq one of the header files you actually need, e.g.

BuildRequires: /usr/include/boost/python.hpp

That should pull in whatever package contains the file.

Paul.