On 07/24/2013 10:39 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
Well, of course. It's a prerequisite for building GCC. I presume that
Debian has the same abilities as Fedora, where if you want to build GCC
you just type
yum-builddep gcc
and Fedora installs all the build reqs for GCC.
Yes, "apt-get build-dep gcc" should work, but will install quite a bit
of other stuff that's not needed for building the more popular front ends.
I don't think that's easy to change because of the way dpkg handles file
conflicts (even if the files are identical) and how true multi-arch
support is implemented in Debian.
But hold on: if I just wanted to compile C programs I'd use the system's
C compiler. Anyone building GCC for themself has a reason for doing so.
I suspect a fairly common exercise is to check if the trunk still has
the bug you're about to report.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
