Hello, On 09/21/2018 04:33 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > sparse is a C code checker that reuses include files from gcc. Currently > there are missing the needed dependencies > (https://bugs.debian.org/906472). > > Now I wonder, what is the right way to depend on gcc. For sparse it > would be enough to depend on libgcc-8-dev (I think), but as cgcc (which > is included in the sparse package) calls gcc, too, I need a dependency > on the gcc package directly (which via gcc-8 depends on libgcc-8-dev). > > As gcc-7 doesn't provide the needed paths, gcc 4:7.whatever isn't enough > though. > > I can imagine the following options to depend on: > > a) gcc, libgcc-8-dev > b) gcc (>= 4:8~), gcc (<< 4:9) > > . Both have the disadvantage that they need manual adaption when gcc > bumps it's major version. > > a) also has the disadvantage that gcc might provide gcc-9 and so sparse > uses different includes than the default compiler (not sure this is bad > enough to care). > > b) is bad, because gcc_4:9~prerelease12 would be good enough to make > dpkg happy, but sparse would fail anyhow. > > Alternatively sparse could stop hardcoding the include path and ask gcc > on each invokation. But I don't like that much as the path hardly ever > changes and it adds some overhead to sparse. > > Do you have any thoughts/recommendations?
FTR: I changed cgcc to call gcc-8 (instead of cc) now and added a dependency on gcc-8 now. This way it should be given that the include files don't disappear and the called programs are around. Best regards Uwe
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