On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
> Is there any reason for libc6-dev to depend on gcc and not on any
> c-compiler ?
> As it is now I can't keep egcs as my only compiler without breaking
> dependencies. Either libc6-dev should depend on c-compiler or egcs provide
> gcc. Am I missing something here??
Several somethings.
Most important: it is still difficult to get egcs and gcc to reside on the
same machine in a friendly manner (some directories and files are in the
same place, some are not)
Secon most important: gcc is the compiler that currently builds the
distribution. While egcs currently seems to have better C++ support than
gcc does at the moment, development proceeds on both, but until they can
work together better, using them both is a problem.
When either of these compilers can be used to build the distribution
without large problems, then the advance to using "c-compiler" as a
virtual package will become possible.
If you really want egcs on your machine and don't want gcc, you can
probably safely force the installation of libc6-dev (or egcs, which ever
gets the complaint)
This is currently to much of a can of worms to allow the change in
libc6-dev at this point.
Waiting is,
Dwarf
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