On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:31:44PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:23:33PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > It works here: > > > > $ amd64-mingw32msvc-gcc -c test.c > > $ > > I forgot to mention: this is actually useful; amd64-mingw32msvc-gcc without > headers is what I use to build mingw-w64 (the runtime). > > If it depended on mingw-w64, it'd create a circular dependency unnecessarily.
It seems pretty common for compiler packages and runtimes to have build-dependencies that necessitate bootstrapping. But you have a point: the compiler still theoretically works for "standalone" compiles. You could perhaps have something like gcc-mingw32-bin and gcc-mingw32, the latter of which depended on a runtime, but I imagine that sounds like too much trouble just to make the dependencies guarantee functionality. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
