On 2011-07-30 9:44, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > I tried using > %global gccver %(gcc -dumpversion) > %if %{gccver}>= 4.6.0 > foo here > %endif > > to conditionalize usage of quadruple precision support in a spec file > that ships on multiple distros, but the comparison gives the error > > parseExpressionBoolean returns -1 > > Is there a way to check if the gcc version is sufficient with some rpm > macro? RPM 4.7 and later let you use a bit of inline Lua to do this: %if %{lua:rpm.vercmp('%{gccver}', '4.6.0')} > 0 This has the benefit of neither comparing lexically nor dragging in extra build dependencies. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel