Now that my Shell dependency patch is in bash we can generate prereqs/build prereqs by processing the specfile scripts through bash at package build time. This would allow you to ensure that you do not miss any prereqs. Now prereqs are added by hand and you never know if you get the full set of needed packages. It would be particularly helpful if this dependency analysis was controled through macros so that the dependency engine could be adjusted or eliminated by an experianced RPM build master. You can even extract buildprereq information from all the makefiles in the build directory. The script you need to run looks something like this find $BUILDDIR -name 'Makefile' -type f -print | xargs egrep -h "^\t" Remember that makefile lines which begin with tab are really embedded shell scripts.
Changing component.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. For RPM issues, please try a current release such as Fedora Core 4; if bugs persist, please open a new issue.