Re: rpms/git-core/devel .cvsignore, 1.10, 1.11 git-core.spec, 1.9, 1.10 sources, 1.10, 1.11

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Florian La Roche wrote:
> > I use the following in gaim for a similar purpose.  It is rather ugly 
> > but works.
> >
> > # Require Binary Compatible glib
> > # returns bogus value if glib2-devel is not installed in order for 
> > parsing to succeed
> > # bogus value wont make it into a real package
> > %define glib_ver %([ -a %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc ] && pkg-config 
> > --modversion glib-2.0 | cut -d. -f 1,2 || echo -n "999")
> > Requires:       glib2 >= %{glib_ver}
> > BuildRequires:  glib2-devel
> >
> > This way the SRPM can build on any version of glib2, but the package 
> > enforces the install-time version of glib2.
>
>
> Why not just add BuildRequires: and have the dependencies to shared libs?
> I think that should be enough, especially for really core libraries as glib2
> that are anyway installed on all machines.
>
> regards,
>
> Florian La Roche

This is about enforcing a certain version of the library, because a 
binary compiled with glib2-2.6 wont work when run with glib2-2.4.  On 
the other hand maybe I shouldn't have added this because we don't 
support mixing packages on the wrong distribution anyway...

Yeah, I'm going to remove this from gaim when I rebuild it.

Warren