Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2007, 09:26 -0600 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > | However, openmi is providing an cxx alternative even when C++ compiler > | is not installed. Is it the right way ? > > ... even though one could argue that openmpi, if it provides wrappers for gcc > and g++, could also depend on them -- though it seems somewhat circular. > > On the other hand, Debian has the 'build-essential' package which provides > make, gcc, g++ --- maybe we (both!!) should just Depends on that. But I seem > to recall that this was implied anyway. Maybe this changed recently. Does > anybody know?
pbuilder pulls in build-essential, I can't say for the buildds. We would also need to depend on at least a Fortran compiler, since openmpi installs wrappers for this one too... I'm unsure whether it should be a Depends or Recommends, I could argue for or against either of them. It would pull in some stuff very few people need (like a Fotran compiler) but that's of course better than leaving a maintainer with a -dev package that's "useless" in some or all cases because you don't have the tools you need. Best regards Manuel
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