Re: [Fedora-packaging] Using %{dist} for conditional compilation

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:41 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > %if "%fedora" >= "4"
> > BuildRequires: gcc-gfortran
> > %else
> > BuildRequires: gcc-g77
> > %endif
> >
> > This should work.
>
> On my FC4 box I get:
>
> $ rpmbuild -ba *spec
> error: Failed build dependencies:
>          gcc-g77 is needed by hdf-4.2r1-2.i386
>
> So looks like %fedora is not defined on user machins, only in the build 
> system?  This won't work.

Put this in /etc/rpm:

http://fedora.ivazquez.net/files/macros.disttag