On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:03:30PM +1000, John Pye wrote: > I should say that although I've made a few RPMs I'm not as > experienced as you guys clearly are. For example, I'm not clear on > the use of a web counter that you're talking about. Are you talking > about that as a build-time counter or some sort, or something that > happens at install time? > > I wanted to clear up the reason for my original question -- perhaps > it has a bearing on this. I've got a package which builds using gcc > and gfortran. [...] > This probably seems like insanity to you guys: what's the right way out? I've met that insanity, use conditionals in the sepcfile like for instance %bcond_without gfortran Check out http://dl.atrpms.net/all/fftw.spec for example code. It's not 100% what you want to do, but stul similar (choosing between gfortran and g77). Then build for fc5 as usual, and for non-gfortran systems like fc4 use rpmbuild --without gfortran ... Don't abuse disttags for that, that's what upsets Jeff (and he's right about that). -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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