severity 567698 wishlist thanks On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:46:26AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Package: gcc-mingw32 > Version: 4.4.2-5 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 7.2 > > I upgraded to 4.4.2-5, and noticed that it no longer Depends on > mingw32-runtime. Instead, it Recommends mingw32-runtime and mingw-w64. > I'd guess this occurred so that users don't need to install both of > those runtimes, just the one for the target platform. However, without > either of them, the package seems entirely non-functional. Without a > runtime for a given target, gcc fails with errors like "error: stdio.h: > No such file or directory".
It works here: $ amd64-mingw32msvc-gcc -c test.c $ > For the ideal solution, I'd propose putting the 32-bit and 64-bit > compilers in separate binary packages, each with Depends on the > corresponding runtime. That way, the installed compiler will always > work. That seems entirely unnecessary. ORed Depends would be an option though. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
