Hi - > Eep. We really should pick up this info during runtime instead of > during build time.
That's what I thought at first too. However, doing it at run time means doing work - a popen() etc. - over and over or saving in a locked global. Since on a normal machine, the distro doesn't change without elfutils also changing, it's practically a literal. > We do want a reproducible build. Can you give an example? Bootstrapping a new distro version/arch? > And this will most likely produce wrong information if the package > build server is on a different OS or release than the OS/release it > is producing packages for. uname -sm might be "stable", but probably > not when cross- compiling. I wonder if the cross-compiled debuginfod-client case is worth worrying about. > But where does lsb_release come from? I don't have that on my > systems. BuildRequires: /usr/bin/lsb_release :-) It's a different package on different distros. And running at run time would make a Require: rather than a one-time BuildRequire:. - FChE
