FPC ticket for building for multiple versions of a language stack?

[John Dulaney]

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> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:21:28 +1000
> Subject: Re: FPC ticket for building for multiple versions of a language stack?
> From: ncoghlan at gmail.com
> To: env-and-stacks at lists.fedoraproject.org
>
> On 30 September 2015 at 00:10, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>> On 09/29/2015 02:36 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>> Slavek's idea was to do this at the RPM level, by introducing loops
>>> into spec files: http://rpm.org/ticket/883
>>>
>>> My inclination is to favour a more SCL style approach, where the
>>> definition of the runtimes to build for is defined at the distribution
>>> level, rather than in the individual packages.
>>
>> We're working on something somewhat similar here:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/567
>>
>> The problem I have with at the moment is trying to automatically generate
>> the proper %files sections. Perhaps if the install could generate a
>> manifest.
>
> If you add the relevant pip module to the BuildRequires and use
> "<target_python> -m pip install" to do the installation (rather than
> plain distutils or setuptools), you'll get a full manifest as a CSV as
> described in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0376/#record
>
> Passing "--record <filename>" to install will also do this, although
> I'm not sure of the format in that case.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.


This gives you a flat text file with a list of installed files, one per line.

John.