[conda] elementary recipe requirements

[antonymayi via conda - Public]

Hi,

I am new to conda and was trying to build my first package (published as
coiny/openpgm) but couldn't get it built without adding to the recipe the
build requirements for automake, autoconf, libtool, make and gcc_linux-64
otherwise it fails with various "not found" issues of missing dependencies.
When I check couple of 3rd party recipes on conda-forge I don't see any of
them needing to specify such dependencies even though they are of similar
kind (ie C based projects) - ie boost-cpp, zeromq, parquet-cpp etc.

I noticed they all have dependency on "toolchain" so tried adding that but
still can't build it without explicitly listing all the rest.

I am using conda/miniconda3 docker image as a build env - just adding
conda-build.

Also what's confusing I am unable to rebuild any of the mentioned 3rd party
packages using their recipes (boost-cpp etc) - hitting similar "not found"
problems of missing dependencies.

can anyone explain how the requirements are supposed to work?

thank you,
Antony.