[lug] rpmbuild and spec files

[Hugh Brown]

I've been trying to build blacs from a fc3 srpm on RHEL4 (usu. I can get
this to work, w/o too much effort).  In this case it won't build and I've
been beating my head against it.  I then belatedly discovered a

BuildRequires: lapack, blas, lam >= 7.1.1-5

I check my version of lam and discover that it is
Version     : 7.0.6

In my mind, rpmbuild should complain and tell me my version of lam isn't
recent enough.  I played around and discovered that if I set it to <
7.1.1-5, it won't build and complains.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?  This seems like a pretty major bug
since it throws the versioning of dependencies haywire.

Hugh