Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 20:59, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:31:54PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > > For example, every self-hosting compiler build-depends on itself
> > > (many of them can be bootstrapped, but I'm not sure we want to require
> > > bootstrapping on every build - and some require manual bootstrapping
> > > work).
> >
> > Nothing else in main comes to mind right now, though I'm sure there is
> > something else...
> >
> make? You'll need make installed to make make. There are a huge number
> of legitimate circular build dependencies, outlawing them won't help.
>
> The way to deal with them is to go install the binary .deb you've
> already got, then build the same package to get your "pristine" source
> version.
>
> Installing the gcc .deb to build gcc isn't any different from installing
> any other cc, after all.
>
> Scott
> --
> Have you ever, ever felt like this?
> Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
All builds have build-essential installed already. Otherwise you would
never get out of circular build-depends. You don't realy want to start
from scratch.
But the remaining circles are evil.
MfG
Goswin
