On 12/22/2013 08:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote: >> >> gcc is considered to be part of the standard build toolset and as such >> is not required to be listed as a dependency in any spec file. > > Part of a standard build toolset or not, it needs to be mentioned. The > dev86 SRPM was pretty old, admittedly. But Fedora, and EPEL, and RHEL, > all build their RPM's with "mock" and "koji" these days, and gcc is > *not* part of the basic build environment. There are reasons, having > to do with cross-compilation and alternative compiler toolchains. So > RHEL, Fedora, and EPEL RPM's all specify "cc" or "gcc" as needed, > > Do take a good look at those Fedora SRPM's if you think I'm kidding.. I did check before I made the comment in the first place (this is for el6 from epel buildsys-build is the standard install for mock epel-6): $ yum groupinfo buildsys-build ... Group: Buildsystem building group Mandatory Packages: ... gcc gcc-c++ ... Peter