On 22/01/2019 15:28, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: > On 22/01/2019 14:57, Ryan Marsaw via blfs-dev wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On the libtasn1 page, the dependency on "six" has been added at revision >>> 20311 >>> (August 15th, 2018, by bdubbs)). But I do not see any reference to six >>> (except >>> in the word posix) in the libtasn1 build tree, and I do not any reference to >>> python either. >>> >>> I suspect it is an oversight (rev 20311 is a big commit with several >>> lfs83_checked tags and two updates), but before removing this dependency, >>> I'd >>> rather ask first if there is/was a reason to add it. >>> >>> Regards >>> Pierre >>> -- >>> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev >>> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >>> Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> >> I keep a log of all my BLFS package installations, and I see no >> reference to "six" for libtasn1 either. Another package that has "six" >> as a required dep is GTK+ 3. I don't see any reference to "six" in that >> package either unless it has something to do with >> wayland/wayland-protocols (which I do not build for my GTK+-3). >> > > Thanks for the heads up. This has been added more than a year ago (revision > 19212, Sep 12th, 2017, by renodr), with an explicit commit message telling it > is required. But there has been a load of newer versions of GTK+3, so I guess > the dependency could have been removed since then. Note that in addition to > wayland, it may be a dependency on systemd. Note also that the doc for 3.24.3 > does not mention any dependency on six nor on python. > > Pierre >
I've been able to build and DESTDIR install both libtasn1 and GTK+3 (3.24.3) without six installed on the system. But I do not do systemd... Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
