On 07/24/2013 10:04 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > 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.
That is not of any significant consequence. >>> 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. Right, so it should be built the right way. Andrew.
