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

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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?
>
> Yes, the Fedora Extras buildsystem defines this macro.  You expected
> otherwise?

To emulate the buildsystem behavior (in this context), you'd need to:

rpmbuild --define "fedora 4" --define "dist fc4" foo.spec

-- Rex