On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 02:00:14AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
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> I think this is a bug in the virtual-p-n-l.text.
I'm not so sure...
"fweb" and "cwed" recommend "c-compiler", and that's because
they include examples in C which could be fine for people to compile.
> A cross compiler should not provide a c-compiler. Packages depend on
> c-compilers if they need a native compilation environment.
In that case, the documentation should be changed, and at
least "bcc" should stop providing "c-compiler".
> There is only _one_ package depending on a c-compiler, and that is
> libc6-dev. libc6-dev does NOT work with a cross compiler. You need a special
> version of libc6 for cross compilation.
I don't know why does libc6-dev depend on "c-compiler". It's
perfectly reasonable to have the headers installed just to watch them,
for example... but anyway, you are right, it's a bit silly to depend
on a cross-compiler.
Well, what do people think? Must cross compilers provide
"c-compiler"?
--
Juan Cespedes
