On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:54:42AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Joel Aelwyn writes:
> > Am I just being dense, or is there *no* way to effectively turn off doc
> > builds in the GCC packages as of 3.3/3.4?
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage -B ...
> fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch

A good start, but the other information below was needed...

> > This is not a concern for normal
> > builds, but it can be extremely useful when, say, trying to bootstrap a
> > compiler for a new port - since the GCC build itself (mostly) requires only
> > things that are either base, or have very short dependancy chains - but
> > the doc build requires texinfo, doxygen, and graphviz, which between them
> > appear to pull in half the known universe.
> 
> the texinfo dependency still remains, or you have to disable all
> patches which touch the texi files.

Got it.

> > Ok, not really, that would be KDE or Gnome, but it's still a huge variety
> > of things which are unlikely to be easily worked with if you're at the
> > stage of "let's build a compiler" if you're tracing Build-Depends rather
> > than just Depends.
> 
> disable the build of java and you can get rid off libgtk as well.

I think it's already disabled on the port in question, but I'll
double-check this.

See? I knew I was just being dense. Anyway, thanks.
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