On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 05:21:32PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:00 +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:14:05PM -0600, Steve Conklin wrote:
>
> > Mock no longer uses a login shell for builds.
> >
> > The way I discovered this is that the ipsec-tools package stopped
> > building. The reason is that it has a BuildRequires for the krb5-devel
> > package, from which it uses krb5-config.
> >
> > krb5-config is installed in /usr/kerberos/bin/, and the user's path is
> > provided by /etc/profile.d/krb5-devel.sh
> >
> > No user shell, therefore no path, and configure fails to find krb5-config.
>
> I think mock is wrong. It's obvious that the devel packages assume
> developers (like package builders, either human or not ;-)) run the
> /etc/profile.d scripts. T
It's only broken development packages which require setting environment
variables like this. The correct way to do parallel installation is:
http://www106.pair.com/rhp/parallel.html
I'm sure there's some historical reason krb5-config is not in /usr/bin,
but it's a design flaw in the software.
The environment variable approach seems easy (no need to rename
binaries), but falls over when you need to compile applications against
multiple library versions.
So, are we going to mandate in the packaging guidelines that packages
*not* use environment variables and that all packages should use
pkg-config?
That is the issue here.
Because if we dont do that, then we end up in the odd situation where a
legal package that passes review cannot be built with the official
fedora build tool.
--
Michael