[Freeswitch-dev] Compiling dependencies inline

[Yossi Neiman]

And this is why I am a Slackware / Slamd64 masochist...  I actually 
think it's a lot less masochistic than having to muck around with rpms 
and such.  *grin*

Yossi Neiman
Cartis Solutions, Inc. - http://www.cartissolutions.com


Paul Tinsley wrote:
> Well the easiest fix for this specific problem is to not adversise 
> those abilities from the rpm, rpm figures those out automagically 
> using ldd on every executable in an rpm file list, you can easily turn 
> that off by adding this to your spec file:
>
> AutoReqProv: no
>
> Then you just need to build the appropriate Provides: line in the spec 
> file for what it does provide, freeswitch.
>
> On 10/21/06, * Peter Nixon* <listuser at peternixon.net 
> <mailto:listuser at peternixon.net>> wrote:
>
>     Matt
>
>     I am aware that it has been discussed previously. I am aware that
>     some of the
>     libs have extra patches, and I am happy to build packages for them
>     also that
>     include the patches. I DO have freeswitch built in rpm form. (See
>     for example
>     http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/telephony/SUSE_Factory/x86_64/freeswitch-snapshot-20061017-16.1.x86_64.rpm
>     <http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/telephony/SUSE_Factory/x86_64/freeswitch-snapshot-20061017-16.1.x86_64.rpm>)
>
>     The problem is what the FREESWITCH rpm does to the rest of the
>     system when you
>     have it available in a repository.
>
>     Take for example the error messages I posted. They state that when
>     someone
>     tries to install "grep" on their system (assuming that they dont
>     have it) rpm
>     considers freeswitch-snapshot as a possible providor of "pcre".
>     Likewise if
>     they want to install something that relies on spandsp or sqlite it
>     will try
>     to install freeswitch to satify the dependency..
>
>     Do you see the problem?
>
>     -Peter
>
>     On Sat 21 Oct 2006 13:26, Matt Klein wrote:
>     > Peter,
>     >       This has been discussed. Issues on current are, some of the..
>     > necessary code additions/modifications to the libs may or may
>     not ever be
>     > available in your external libs.
>     >
>     > Please advise on how you suggest we proceed.
>     >
>     > Are you exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/freeswitch/lib
>     prior?
>     >
>     > thx
>     > -m
>     >
>     > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Peter Nixon wrote:
>     > > Hi Guys
>     > >
>     > > Here is the result of building a freeswitch package with all
>     of its
>     > > dependencies inline. It confuses the hell out of rpm when you
>     go an try
>     > > to build OTHER packages that rely on those dependencies which
>     are already
>     > > provided by standard packages:
>     > >
>     > > Fedora_Extras_5  i586  expansion error
>     > > have choice for libpcre.so.0 needed by grep:
>     freeswitch-snapshot pcre
>     > > have choice for libsqlite3.so.0 needed by rpm-libs:
>     freeswitch-snapshot
>     > > sqlite have choice for libsqlite3.so.0 needed by rpm:
>     freeswitch-snapshot
>     > > sqlite have choice for libsqlite3.so.0 needed by rpm-build:
>     > > freeswitch-snapshot sqlite
>     > >
>     > > Now, I CAN work around this by manually specifying preferences
>     for each
>     > > of these packages in ALL of my other builds but this is really
>     bad karma
>     > > and requires me to screw around with almost 50 other packages
>     just to
>     > > have the pleasure of building freeswitch. ick..
>     > >
>     > > Please please fix the build so that it will use external libs
>     if they are
>     > > available. I will happily package any external libs that are
>     required
>     > > (infact I already have done so) and can apply patches to any
>     that need
>     > > them.
>     > >
>     > > Cheers
>     > > --
>     > >
>     > > Peter Nixon
>     > > http://www.peternixon.net/
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