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

[Florian La Roche]

> 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