Package: libtool-bin Version: 2.4.2-1.11 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap
libtool-bin requires a compiler for proper operation. In earlier times, there was only the libtool binary package, which still depends on gcc | c-compiler. Then we split out /usr/bin/libtool to libtool-bin and had it depend on libtool thus inheriting all dependencies, at least we thought. What we forgot is that libtool became Multi-Arch: foreign. Thus installing libtool-bin:arch1 with gcc:arch2 is considered ok. Unfortunately that doesn't work well as /usr/bin/libtool expects gcc/g++/ld to match its own architecture. The trivial solution to this problem is adding an explicit dependency on gcc | c-compiler to libtool-bin. I note though that after adding that dependency, libtool-bin will effectively become unusable to cross building, because its gcc:hostarch dependency will not be satisfiable. In a distant future, we want it to depend on gcc-for-host instead and thus allow cross compilers to be used. Until that becomes reality, the dependency on gcc will remind us that cross building anything that Build-Depends on libtool-bin will be a fruitless exercise. Helmut
