Todd This is something I was having a conversation with Guillame (I hope I spelled it right if not I apologize.) On dealing with Autoconf specifically. I've run into this wall a number of times trying to build or use applications across a number of distributions. It would seem to me that there should be or maybe can be a way to cross this line so that RPM understands some-app.i386.rpm and some_app.i386.rpm and some.app.i386.rpm are really all the same. With Mandrake I run into it most often with autoconf. (it looks for 2.5.x and 2.53 doesn't satisfy it.) Until finally I just built it from source, rpm'd it and installed it. (All because I like Keramik go figure *grin*) Any thoughts on how to pursue this matter. I'd like to do that without causing any problems or stepping on toes.
James On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:21, Todd Lyons wrote: > D. R. Evans wrote on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:56:11AM -0600 : > Content-Description: Mail message body > > > > On my LM 8.1 system I have to install a newer version of autoconf. Using > > the rpm from rpmfind.net for autoconf 2.53-7, it says that it requires > > perl >= 5.6.0. LM 8.1 rpm says that it has perl 5.601-6mdk installed, > > which I take to mean that it meets the criterion. > > Almost. It uses the periods as delimiters. So it compares perl-5.6.0 > against perl-5.601 in the following sequence: > > 5 >= 5 (true) > 6 >= 601 (false) > > The real story behind the perl issue is that perl 5.601 is really perl > 5.6.0.1. There is some historical reason that it's the way that it is, > but I don't know it. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious > anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you > will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
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