Re: rpms/graphviz/devel graphviz.spec,1.14,1.15

[John Ellson <ellson research att com>]

Oliver Falk wrote:

> On 08/29/2005 03:16 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 07:33 -0400, Oliver Falk wrote:
> >
> > > Author: oliver
> >
> >
> >
> > > Index: graphviz.spec
> >
> >
> >
> > > +BuildRequires:        /bin/ksh bison m4 flex tcl-devel >= 8.3 
> > > tk-devel swig
> >
> >
> > What's the reason for BR'ing /bin/ksh?
> >
> > I can't imagine a single reason for doing so under Linux.
>
>
> I took that from the specfile that comes with graphviz and didn't 
> think to much about it - it also was there since I took over 
> graphviz... Maybe John knows why!?
>
> Best,
>  Oliver



Tritely, because ksh was invented here and its too hard convincing 
people here to use
bash.    As I recall, iffe depends on it.

John