How to handle circular build dependencies?

Hi, sorry if this a newbie question, I tried to search this but did not find good documentation on this problem. I'm in the process of upgrading the clojure package to next version, which has new dependencies. These dependencies require certain clojure version themselves, so it makes a chicken-and-egg kind of problem. Are there good ways to handle these kind of circular dependencies? I know I can update clojure to certain alpha version, which the new libraries require. Then build those, and when they are accepted then upgrade the clojure package, and then upgrade those libraries, etc. But it is tedious. I'm hoping there would be a better way :) And also do I have to do that bootstrapping again when building clojure for example EPEL-8? Best regards, Markku -- Markku