cyclic build dependency libvirt->systemtap->libvirt?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

timo.lindfors wrote:

> systemtap 2.4 seems to use libvirt headers during build. In debian
> libvirt also uses systemtap sdt.h during build. Is this intentional or
> should we try to mitigate this somehow? 

Good catch.  It's a loosely-versioned dependency (any previous version
of X is enough to build Y), so updates are not really problematic.  If
it's really worth solving, I suppose one could fork the sdt-devel
header file into its own separate package (versus being a
sub-package).


> Cyclic build dependencies are problematic e.g. when porting software
> to new architectures or compilers (such as clang).

For bootstrapping purposes, the loop may be broken at either point by
removing the rpm/dep dependency tags, and building either package in
isolation.


- FChE