On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:46:47PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > On 08/12/2009 06:34 PM, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:33:44PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: >>> as gcc binaries are required to compile gcc from source, GT.M >>> binaries are required to build GT.M from source. >> >> That is fine - if GT.M is supposed to work with other architectures than >> i386 or amd64 you will have to talk to the porters though, I guess. > > [KSB3] Leaving aside discussion of other architectures, even to > bootstrap GT.M on x86 requires the binary. So, if I create a Debian > package for the source code, it will require GT.M (presumably from a > Debian binary package of GT.M) to build a binary package.
That is understood. Bootstrapping is really a standard procedure in Debian these days. The general procedure is that you create a source package which Build-Depends on its own binary package, then use a binary from whereever (you don't need a binary package here - just the appropriate binaries in the PATH or otherwise accessible are fine) to build the binary package from the source package, then rebuild the binary package using the just-built binary package as Build-Depends to complete the bootstrap. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
