Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (42 mails)

[Dries Verachtert <dries@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:16, Michael Schroeder wrote:

> Suse already defines a "suse_version" macro which you can use (even
> in the build service), but it is a bit different from the one
> you use: it contains an extra digit for "beta" versions.
>
> We can define some macros for fedora and the other distributions
> if they don't have macros like this.

Maybe interesting: the buildsystems dar and pydar2 always use a macro 'dist'. 
This macro can have a variable like 'rh7', 'el4' or 'fc5'.
An example: the buildsys uses a command like: rpmbuild -ba --define='dist fc5' 
some.spec. A spec file can use this macro directly or it can contain a line 
like:
%{?dist: %{expand: %%define %dist 1}}
Then you can use stuff like:

%{?fc4:BuildRequires: gettext-devel}

or

%{?fc4:BuildRequires: gcc-gfortran}
%{!?fc4:BuildRequires: gcc-g77}

or

%{?el3:%define _without_gamin 1}
%{?fc2:%define _without_gamin 1}
%{?fc1:%define _without_gamin 1}
...
%{?_without_gamin:BuildRequires: fam-devel}
%{!?_without_gamin:BuildRequires: gamin-devel}
=> new version of distro automatically uses the gamin-devel buildreq.

It's just to give you an idea how it's done in other build systems.

kind regards,
Dries

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