First of all, there is no rpm-build in the component list so I'm not able to report the bug for the correct package. But rpm is near enough. Description of problem: I have a perl module with has a HERE text in the following mather: ... print <<HERE; blabla require further blabla HERE ... When I try to make a rpm from this I get the dependency for perl(further) witch is completely wrong behaviour! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-build-4.3.3-18_nonptl
perl dependencies are extracted using regex's which can match other data. Either rewrite the here document, or filter out the mis-matches.
> perl dependencies are extracted using regex's which can match other data. I know. I saw the source. > Either rewrite the here document, or filter out the mis-matches. Neither is a good solution. - The first is not always intended. "require" is a very common English word. - The second is not robust and I also do not know, as the documentation is very silent in this case, how to do that filtering in the middle of the build process instead of having "AutoReq: no". Both ways are only _workarounds_ for the bug, no solution. The perl language is very good to parse. So a bit better regex would be much more useful. And matching Strings in a regex is never a good idea.
(In reply to comment #2) > The perl language is very good to parse. False. The Perl language is a horrible language to parse. The only thing that can reliably parse perl is perl. > So a bit better regex would be much more useful. Also false. No regular expression can compensate for all the different ways of doing things that do, and that do not, create a dependency. "eval"...'Nuff said. Search elsewhere in Bugzilla (which, of course, you should've done already...but since you created this bug, it's pretty clear you didn't) for a "perldeps.pl" that does a much better job.
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