Re: .spec file for multiple target distros

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

Hi Axel,

Can you point me at some documentation for bcond_without? Or is that 
something that lurks in your .rpmmacros? Is it just

%{!?without_thingo: %define without_thingo 1}

Cheers
JP

Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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).
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John Pye
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