Circular dependencies in texlive?

[Jon Ciesla]

EPEL for EL-6 has a cmake28 RPM available.

-J


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Alain Portal <alain.portal at univ-montp2.fr>wrote:

> Le vendredi 05 juillet 2013 12:54:27, Mathieu Bridon a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 12:45 +0200, Alain Portal wrote:
> > > Le jeudi 04 juillet 2013 19:44:04, John Reiser a écrit :
> > > > Today this
> > > > is not a circular dependency, although it may be impossible to
> rebuild the world
> > > > from source only, without using some previous [or current] binary
> version of graphite2-devel.
> > > > Once upon a time the dependencies were not as strict, or there was a
> bootstrapping
> > > > stage that is not recorded in the .spec, or there was manual
> "cheating", etc.
> > >
> > > This is clearly a circular dependency.
> > > I'm curious to know how koji do the job...
> >
> > Both are available in Fedora 19, so any of them can be rebuilt and have
> > its BuildRequires satisfied.
> >
> > The question is how did it get built the first time. And John already
> > responded to that in the part quoted above.
> >
> > Note that circular build dependencies are in fact quite common, for
> > example in Perl modules.
> >
> > What happens is that you'll bootstrap it by first building A, without
> > the BuildRequires on B (for example having B present in the buildroot is
> > only needed for an optional feature in A, or for the unit tests,...).
> >
> > Then you build B, with its build dependency on A.
> >
> > And finally you rebuild A, this time with the build dependency on B.
>
> I tried to rebuild graphite2 with removing the BR texlive-*, the build
> failed because building graphite2 need at least cmake-2.8.0 and there is
> only 2.6.4 on CentOS :(
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