Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (233 mails)

[Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@xxxxxxx>]

On 2007-05-24 11:29:03 -0600, Troy Telford wrote:
> I've got a spec file (not on build.opensuse.org, though), that has the 
> following syntax:
> 
> %{?_with_foo:BuildRequires: foo}
> 
> With a non-buildservice RPM build, this means that if the macro '_with_foo' is 
> defined, 'foo' is a build requirement.
> 
> It's a useful syntax; I have to provide a source RPM that can give the user 
> customization options by re-compiling the srpm with various "--with foo" 
> options (or to negate defaults by using "--without foo".)
> 
> What I'm seeing is the following when I try to build the package using the 
> buildservice:  %{_with_foo} is set in the spec file as the default (so RPM 
> sees "BuildRequires: foo")
> 
> rpmbuild evaluates the statement properly: it requires package 'foo' as a 
> requirement for compilation.
> 
> The problem is that OBS isn't installing the 'foo' package before starting 
> rpmbuild.  When rpmbuild checks that its buildrequires are satisfied, it 
> isn't finding 'foo', and the compile aborts.
> 
> Obviously, a workaround is to use the 
> 
>         %if 0%{?obensuse_bs}
>         # bs-specific part here
>         %endif
> 
> syntax.
> 
> But this doesn't seem to be one of the cases where using the syntax is 
> appropriate, as it shouldn't be necessary to know when the buildservice will 
> or won't detect the same build requirements 'rpmbuild' does.

i think that isnt implemented in the spec file parser. but imho ... the
obvious workaround ist not

%if 0%{?obensuse_bs}

but:

%if %{?_with_foo}
BuildRequires: foo
%endif

which is essentially the same as:
%{?_with_foo:BuildRequires: foo}

dont think so?

    darix

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