dependecies issue

[AS]

Hi,

would need a clarification, just made a big mess updating plymouth package:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,104006.0.html

I have used the following notation (which lately appeared out was wrong):

%files <--------

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%ifarch x86_64
/lib64/libply-splash-core.so
%else
/lib/libply-splash-core.so
%endif

the above lead to pull in several not needed packages, notably calibre.

The fix, and of course, more appropriate syntax, fixed the problem.

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/%{_lib}/libply-splash-core.so
I was thinking that the two were equivalent and interchangeable, obviously they aren't.
Thanks

AS

[pinoc]

me too, I would like to know why they are different or what is the difference between the two.

[daniel]

and why not use

%{_libdir}/libply-splash-core.so

?

[AS]

and why not use

%{_libdir}/libply-splash-core.so

?

Doesn't %{_libdir} expand to /usr/lib ?

[daniel]

it's will expand to /usr/lib or under 64 bit to /usr/lib64...

BuildRequires:   %{_lib}dvdread-devel >= 0.9.4
Will search libdvdread-devel under /usr/lib or under /usr/lib64


%{_libdir}/lib*.so.%{major}*
will store Libs under /usr/lib or under /usr/lib64

This is magic...  

But i think other users can explain it better as i... 

[AS]

it's will expand to /usr/lib or under 64 bit to /usr/lib64...

BuildRequires:   %{_lib}dvdread-devel >= 0.9.4
Will search libdvdread-devel under /usr/lib or under /usr/lib64


%{_libdir}/lib*.so.%{major}*
will store Libs under /usr/lib or under /usr/lib64

This is magic... 

Yes, but those files must go in /lib or /lib64, not /usr/lib or /usr/lib64   

[daniel]

ahhhh, okay my bad read...