[Mageia-dev] Generic 64-bit building question

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mercredi 13 juillet 2011 11:17:31, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
> Thanks. So I've got from 2 answers:
> > You should use libmagick-devel
> 
> and:
> > Its' spec file must contain a virtual provides :
> > Provides:  libpoppler-qt4-devel
> 
> Indeed, libmagick-devel, libwmf-devel, libchm-devel, libpoppler-qt4-devel,
> etc. do expand/match/find_provides correctly on 64-bit too!
> 
> But then *why* some names have to be written as:
> qt4-devel and *not* libqt4-devel
> python-devel and *not* libpython-devel
> ?
> Isn't this an inconsistency?
> 
> Moreover, excuse me, but I find it stupid to have a 64-bit lib called
> `libksane-devel`.  This is its full 64-bit name, *not* the name from
> BuildRequires!
> It's another inconsistency IMHO.
> 
> Of course, there is urpmq --provides to find out what resolves to the
> needed devel library, but still...
> 
> Thank you all!
> 
> R-C aka beranger

Have you seen the discussion entitled "[Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual 
Provides in -devel packages" from 5 days ago ? If Ahmad proposes to 
standardize them that means that we already know about some inconsistencies 
and want to improve this.

Samuel