Re: [gentoo-dev] splitting build deps out from depends

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday 01 July 2005 20:53, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Friday 01 July 2005 20:42, Brian D. Harring wrote:
> > Err... missing the point, and proving my point.  Current portage
> > _will_ fail because it's an unstated dependency.  Why shouldn't
> > portage be provided the deps it needs so it can figure out what is
> > needed to get to what the user requested?
>
> BDEPEND is not going to resolve the case Mike shown.
>
> GCC bdepends over GCC to compile, you don't have GCC, you can't install
> GCC, you can't install anything (a part from binpkgs).
> But if you put GCC in profile, no need to depend on it, you'll always have
> one also if nothign depends on it and the problem is resolved.
>
> BTW, as I already stated on irc, GCC is a RDEPEND not a BDEPENED because of
> libgcc_s.so and libstdc++.so, so...

No, it's both. You need to have a cross gcc on the compiling machine, and a 
runtime gcc (gcc-lib parts) on the running machine.

Paul

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