On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 12:32 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > possibly admitting my ignorance, but why does installing
> > perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker drag in systemtap-sdt-devel? i see no logical
> > connection, and i don't even have any systemtap packages installed.
> >
> > i ask since i'm working with a software package that fails to
> > configure properly if the header file "sys/sdt.h" is installed on the
> > development system, but it needs the MakeMaker package, so i'm in a
> > bit of a dilemma.
>
> When in doubt:
>
> $ echo n | sudo yum install --releasever=21 --installroot=/tmp/empty foo
>
> And then examine the output. In this case, perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker →
> perl-ExtUtils-Install → perl-devel → systemtap-sdt-devel. Which appears
> to have been so since December 2010:
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/661553
gotcha ... only skimmed that bugzilla thread but, until i read
further, i still think that dependency is just plain weird. grrr ...
rday
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