On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:

> Let's see... the buildoutput is available at:
>
> http://cm61-10-20-87.hkcable.com.hk/build/cooker/i586/OK/kups-1.1-11mdk.src.rpm.txt
>
> The only place in the buildoutput where I can find mcopidl is:
>
> checking for dcopidl2cpp... /usr/bin/dcopidl2cpp
> checking for mcopidl... /usr/bin/mcopidl
> checking for kdb2html... /usr/bin/kdb2html
>
> So it probably doesn't use this program to Build the application either.
> But if i leave out the BuildRequires, and arts isn't installed the
> package won't be rebuilt, because it will hang on the ./configure.
>
> What should I do?
> 1/ Keep the BuildRequires and just let it be;
> 2/ Remove the BuildRequires, and have a broken package (at least on my
> rebuilding system);
> 3/ Patch the source to let ./configure not check for mcopidl so we can
> drop the BuildRequires: arts. This means there is another patch to make
> & maintain and figuring all this out takes time. Feel free to submit
> such a patch and I'll put it in;
> 4/ Report a bug to the authors of the kups software and when the bug is
> fixed drop the BuildRequires: arts;

4 is the best solution. I think they just used generic kde make file. So
it's up to them to fix this problem.

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