c1d0a96 Use pregenerated dependencies on bootstrapping

Authored and Committed by ppisar 7 years ago
    Use pregenerated dependencies on bootstrapping
    
    The dependencies are stored in gendep.macros file. The file be
    regenerated from an RPM build log by ./generatedependencies tool.
    
    The intended work flow is to build a new perl with RPM Perl dependency
    generator available locally. Then use this ./generatedependencies tool to
    convert the discovered dependencies into the gendep.macro file. Then it's
    possible to build the new perl even without the RPM Perl dependency
    generator available in the build root while the resulting binary
    packages will still posses all dependencies.
    
    The reason is standard perl-genererators is written in the Perl thus
    perl-generators must run-require perl. Therefore there is
    a build cycle. One could rewrite perl-generators.spec so that it did
    not need perl for building, but the run-time dependency would still be
    there.
    
    One could claim the one run-time dependency can be satisfied by older
    perl. And that's true and it has been done so until now. But that
    would not solve the problem when bootrapping perl to a new architecture
    or as an excercise the perl can be built without any prior perl
    available (required by paranoid users). With pregenerated
    dependencies, one can implement real bootstrap.
    
    (Ultimate solution would be reimplement RPM Perl generators in C.)
    
        
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