On 23/05/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 23/05/07, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Tromey and I are working on packaging bbdb for Emacs (see BZ > 226800). However, there is a circular BuildRequires. In order that the > Emacs mailreader VM (packaged as emacs-vm) and bbdb integrate > properly, we need to have a BuildRequires: emacs-vm-el in the > emacs-bbdb package, and we need to have a BuildRequires: emacs-bbdb-el > in the emacs-vm package. In other words, both packages require the > elisp source of the other to be present at build time. > > Is there an established way of solving this chicken and egg situation? I should add also that building emacs-vm without the bbdb elisp source present will succeed, producing compiled lisp without bbdb functionality and the source el package as well. The same is true for emacs-bbdb. This is only an issue when wanting to enable bbdb functionality in vm.
And to answer my own mail again, thanks to notting on IRC the solution is now clear to me - build both packages without the circular BuildRequires. One packages exist for both, add the circular BuildRequires and build again. -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
