Hi
My apologies if this is a newbie question. I searched in google for a
while and could not find an answer to this.
I want to build debian package for a library called fortranposix. The
upstream source can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fortranposix
This library depends on some kind of fortran 90 compiler being installed
on the system. gfortran is the Fortran 90 compiler available in latest
versions of gcc. Currently gfortran is available (on sid atleast) only
through gcc-snapshot. However the description of gcc-snapshot
specifically asks not to build packages against it.
So now my questions are
1) How can I make sure that the user has gfortran installed on his system.
2) From reading
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html , I know
that only package names can be listed as arguments to Build-Depends
command. Is there any way I can list binary name (gfortran) instead of
package name (gcc-snapshot) as dependency?
Making dependency against gfortran has also the advantage that it works
even if the user has compiled it by himself instead of going through the
gcc-snapshot way.
Any solutions/work arounds are appreciated. At present, I would be happy
if the solution works for sid. But if the solution is good for sarge
then it is even better.
thanks in advance
raju
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