On March 25, 2006 2:45:13 PM +0100 Axel Liljencrantz <liljencrantz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
* Overzelous dependencies. When building fish on Fedora Core 5, a dependency on libc.so.6 is automatically added, but fish works just fine using earlier versions of libc. How can one specify that fish doesn't actually need the latest version of a library? Doing so would enable me to provide an rpm on the fish download page that works with any semi-modern RPM-based distribution.
No it wouldn't. If you *build* fish against libc.so.6, at compile time the linker puts a dependency on libc.so.6 into the fish binary. The rpm dependency checker notes this. Now, if you CAN run fish against libc.so.5, that's fine, but the version you just built will NOT work against it because symbols are different sizes, etc, which is why the specific version is recorded in the dependency. In order to work against libc.so.5, you need to build against libc.so.5. (And that binary won't then work on a libc.so.6 system.) But if you must, you can use the external dependency generator (look through /usr/lib/rpm/macros) and set __find_requires to a script which calls the "real" find-requires and filters out the dependencies you feel are "bad". But libc.so.6 isn't one of them. -frank _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
