Rex Dieter wrote:
Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Andreas Thienemann wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> %if "%fedora" >= "4"
>> BuildRequires: gcc-gfortran
>> %else
>> BuildRequires: gcc-g77
>> %endif
>>
>> This should work.
> On my FC4 box I get:
>
> $ rpmbuild -ba *spec
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> gcc-g77 is needed by hdf-4.2r1-2.i386
>
> So looks like %fedora is not defined on user machins, only in the
> build system?
Yes, the Fedora Extras buildsystem defines this macro. You expected
otherwise?
To emulate the buildsystem behavior (in this context), you'd need to:
rpmbuild --define "fedora 4" --define "dist fc4" foo.spec
-- Rex