On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:00 +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:14:05PM -0600, Steve Conklin wrote: > > > > > Mock no longer uses a login shell for builds. > > > > > > The way I discovered this is that the ipsec-tools package stopped > > > building. The reason is that it has a BuildRequires for the krb5-devel > > > package, from which it uses krb5-config. > > > > > > krb5-config is installed in /usr/kerberos/bin/, and the user's path is > > > provided by /etc/profile.d/krb5-devel.sh > > > > > > No user shell, therefore no path, and configure fails to find krb5-config. > > > > I think mock is wrong. It's obvious that the devel packages assume > > developers (like package builders, either human or not ;-)) run the > > /etc/profile.d scripts. T > > It's only broken development packages which require setting environment > variables like this. The correct way to do parallel installation is: > > http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html > > I'm sure there's some historical reason krb5-config is not in /usr/bin, > but it's a design flaw in the software. > > The environment variable approach seems easy (no need to rename > binaries), but falls over when you need to compile applications against > multiple library versions. So, are we going to mandate in the packaging guidelines that packages *not* use environment variables and that all packages should use pkg-config? That is the issue here. Because if we dont do that, then we end up in the odd situation where a legal package that passes review cannot be built with the official fedora build tool. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
