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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
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