On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:23:48PM +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
which causes packagers to resort to either resort to build-require "bison m4" or "byacc" instead of "bison".
Your buildsystem should always require m4 until our source base is cleaned up to support this fine-grained level of requirements. Until now it is not.
I've applied a few buildreq fixes from Steve Grubb, hopefully I'll get his next set soon and can carry on merging them.
So if the problems don't warrant an update, I think the only solution is to add workarounds into the other packages. In the case of buildrequires I think it would be bad to create additional rpms instead of adding m4 to the list of essential rpm packages.
Or reopen/file a new bug when it does become important.