On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:25:47PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 05:56:40PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote:
> > Presumably we should add a RHEL BuildRequires too.
> I do not build rpm packages on a daily basis, but it looks like we do
> not use BuildRequires tag to specify build dependencies.
>
> All I could find was this section in INSTALL.RHEL
> >2. Install build prerequisites: yum install gcc make python-devel
> >openssl-devel kernel-devel kernel-debug-devel autoconf automake rpm-build
> >redhat-rpm-config
>
> Though, if I execute following command on latest Fedora distribution;
> >sudo yum-builddep openvswitch
> Then it automatically figures out all the build dependencies and even
> graphviz is already there.
>
> Are these build dependencies handled out of band by RH and Fedora
> maintainers? Do they add them each time before creating rpm packages
> for their distribution?
I guess the official Fedora (and RHEL) packaging must be different
from what is in our tree.
There was a patch yesterday, still being discussed, to add a
BuildRequires:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-October/011616.html
For now, then, let's just add this to INSTALL.RHEL.
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