Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Antony Suter a �crit :
> >
> > I spotted the lines giving the error message while compiling. Its
> > looking for perl.h. Bottom line is that you need to install
> > perl-devel.rpm from Mandrake 7.2 CD number 2. Ive done this and gimp
> > 1.2.0 compiled/installed/ran fine.
>
> Ok, it worked fine. Thanks for your help.
> Is it not the task of spec-helper to automatically add requires and
> buildrequires for package ? Maybe a simple rule as 'for each package
> needing perl, add buildrequires perl-devel' is missing ?
at least for this case, it's not that simple. A lot of packages are pure perl,
not requiring any .so's extensions, aka not requiring perl-devel
