On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 12:12:39PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 05/06/07, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Building twice in a row doesn't get things right either. > > > >Why not? Care to detail this? > > Well, I can think of one case where building twice does do the trick, > but it requires a changing of the BuildRequires between building. > > The example is emacs-bbdb and emacs-vm. Both packages require the > elisp source of the other package (emacs-bbdb-el and emacs-vm-el) to > be in the buildroot if you want bbdb functionality in vm. So the way > to achieve that is: > > a) build emacs-vm without BuildRequires: emacs-bbdb-el > b) build emacs-bbdb with BuildRequires: emacs-vm-el > c) rebuild emacs-vm with BuildRequires: emacs-bbdb-el added. > > [Yes, I realize this is ugly] > > Scripting quirky stuff like that I can see would be hard. What's > really needed is some sort of optional BuildRequires directive in RPM, > that afaik doesn't yet exist. You misunderstood the building twice: a) first against the current rawhide b) then against the result from above so you would have emacs-vm and emacs-bbdb already in pass a) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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