-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/3/10 2:06 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: > > On 03 May 2010, at 19:51, Jack Howarth wrote: > >> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:31:31PM -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> So for packages where none of the libraries from FSF gcc get linked, >>> perhaps a BuildDepends on 'gcc' would be OK. >> >> This wlll likely never be the case. For gcc44 and earlier, any executable >> created with the FSF gcc compiler will be linked against >> %p/lib/gcc4.x/libgcc_s.1.dylib. > > > The first example coming to my mind: if you look into atlas.info, > you see (currently commented out) lines where linking was done > with ld, precisely in part to avoid linking in libgcc_s > (which in fact didn't provide any needed symbols in that case). > And with -dead_strip_dylibs, this might become more frequent. > > But sure it will remain rather exceptional cases. > > JF
Peter reminded me on IRC that the original motivation behind having a 'gcc' package was to provide a "current FSF compiler" at runtime for packages that needed an FSF compiler tool but didn't care what version it was. That's different than trying to automatically update anything. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvfEZkACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+6pgCeMZ5k7H/7/TmNtNKEJpuPaDPM +9MAn1X7soSwtTRwc131PRhXHGGbwR7A =zkg/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
