Guillem Jover, on Wed 21 Sep 2016 00:17:05 +0200, wrote: > On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 21:26:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > dpkg needs to build-depend on hurd-dev because it uses <hurd.h> and > > <ps.h>. It happens that libc0.3-dev depends on it, and thus hurd-dev > > gets pulled on a normal system. But when bootstrapping, libc0.3-dev does > > not depend on hurd-dev yet. So dpkg should explicitly build-depend on > > hurd-dev to be able to be compiled with the bootstrap libc build. > > As I replied to Helmut when he brought this up on IRC, I think adding > what you proposed would be (currently) wrong. hurd-dev is already > build-essential, and if we have to spell those explicitly we might as > well stop having build-essential at all.
Sure, but dpkg is part of build-essential too, and so AIUI it thus needs to explain how it is supposed to build within the build-essential bootstrap. > If this is causing problems when rebootstrapping, then this tells me > we might need some stages somewhere or some build profile restricted > dependencies, new virtual packages, or packages split or… At the very best I'd make hurd-dev provide a libps-dev which dpkg would depend on, but that'd be purely artificial since we don't actually ever build a separate libps-dev package, the stage3 hurd-dev package already provides everything that build-essential is supposed to provide. Samuel
