RPM failed deps gone loopy

[Net Llama!]

Ya, its not every SRPM that does that just some of them, and they're all 
directly from RH-7.3.

Susan Macchia wrote:
> Lonni,
> 
> You may have already done this, but I would try building another src.rpm to
> determine if the problem is with the rpm file (which I suspect), or with rpm
> itself.  Then, if the problem is the rpm file, whereever you got the src.rpm
> (redhat?) is who should fix the problem.  I bet its with the scripts
> that are used to build the source from the rpm or some such.
> 
> Good luck and HTH
> 
> netllama at linux-sxs.org wrote:
> 
>>That could very well be the problem.  If so, its RedHat's fault, as all 
>>i've been doing is "rpm --rebuild <file.src.rpm>" and then attempting to 
>>install the resulting RPM.
>>
>>Susan Macchia wrote:
>>
>>>Lonni,
>>>
>>>I've been writing a lot of k-shell scripts lately; to execute and assign the
>>>value of an external "program", you would say, for example:
>>>
>>>foo=$(cat foobar)
>>>
>>>Which is why I am replying...  
>>>
>>>the LIST=$(...  looks like this - could be some kind of syntax error 
>>
>>somewhere
>>
>>>or something.  Just thought I'd throw this out as symptomatic of some
>>>script problem?
>>>
>>>Don't know if this helps but...
>>>
>>>netllama at linux-sxs.org wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm in the process of rebuilding the RH-7.3 SRPMs, and then installing
>>>>them.  I'm starting to see some very very weird stuff, for failed
>>>>dependencies:
>>>>
>>>>CXXFLAGS   is needed by libsigc++-devel-1.0.3-5
>>>>LIST=$(shell   is needed by libsigc++-devel-1.0.3-5
>>>>
>>>>No, neither is a typo , that's exactly how they appeared.  I'm using the
>>>>exact same version of rpm that i've had for a few weeks (prior to the
>>>>manual upgrade i'm doing).

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