On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Actually ocaml-pcre-devel is the one which requires pcre-devel. I
> > don't think this is against any guidelines, or if it is, it shouldn't
> > be.
>
> No, that makes sense. Your message wasn't clear about that.
>
> >> Instead, the software MUST be patched to dlopen the fully versioned
> >> so from the runtime package instead.
> >
> > If I understand what you mean, the software does this already. The
> > bug is that there's no explicit (or implicit) dependency to tell RPM
> > that it's doing this.
>
> There needs to be at least a Requires: pcre. I guess a Requires on the exact
> soname being dlopened would be more robust, but then you need to take care
> of that pesky '()(64bit)' multilib suffix.
Well now, now that everything's in the same directory, can't we use
%{_libdir}/libpcre.so.1 :-?
Rich.
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