I would like to use the -f flag or a shell backtick to generate the build_dependencies and the prerequisites. There are several makefile generation scripts arround (like MakeMaker for perl) which know the requirements for the product. It would be nice if there was a scriptable way to get this information into the specfile automatically. Obviously build_dependencies need to get the data right away and prerequisites should only be evaluated after the install since this information might not be availible till then (I was using the dependency output of the jikes java compiler -M to make my prerequsites before I knew how to parse the java class files. This situation could come up again as new languages are invented and buildtime dependencies are taken care of before runtime dependencies.) Ken
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