rpmbuild and dependency disabling
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Tue Aug 2 18:26:12 UTC 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:40 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: rpmbuild and dependency disabling
>
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> libodbc.so is needed by java-ies-1.4.2-08.i386
> >> libodbcinst.so is needed by java-ies-1.4.2-08.i386
> >
> >
> > Hmm, an unversioned soname. The unixODBC package provides
> libodbc.so.1
> > and libodbcinst.so.1; I wonder why you're getting the
> unversioned ones?
>
> This appears to be a common problem with java packages.
> Here's one way you can try to work around it:
>
> Near the top of your spec file, add this:
>
> %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0 %define
> our_find_requires %{_builddir}/%{name}-%{version}/find_requires
>
> (you may need to alter "%{name}-%{version}" to be the name of
> the directory your package source gets unpacked into)
>
> At the end of the %prep section of your spec, add this:
>
> # Kludge to remove bogus odbc dependencies cat <<EOF
> >%{our_find_requires} #!/bin/sh echo unixODBC exec
> %{__find_requires} | /bin/egrep -v '^(libodbc(inst)?\.so)$'
> exit 0
> EOF
> chmod +x %{our_find_requires}
> %define __find_requires %{our_find_requires}
>
> That will hopefully result in a sensible set of dependencies
> being generated.
>
> Paul.
>
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>
Thanks for your help, most of the dependancies seem to have been taken
care of, but I'm still getting a few. The following line is giving
rpmbuild an error:
%define __find_requires %{our_find_requires}
I'm using FC3 and rpmbuild version 4.3.2
-Mike
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