Mark Brown writes: > I'm trying to package up the compiler TenDRA compilers (see > http://alph.dra.hmg.gb/TenDRA/ for more information). I've just about > got everything working - the only problem that I can see at the minute > is that it requires a couple of object files which are part of gcc and > installed in the private gcc directory /usr/lib/gcc-lib/<arch>/<version>
- if you want to use the files frm gcc-2.7, then that's correct. - on systems, where egcs is the primary compiler, you have to use /usr/lib/gcc-lib/<arch>/egcs-<version> - if you want to use the egcs files on systems, where egcs is the secondary compiler, you have to use /usr/lib/gcc-lib/<arch>/egcs-<version> and depend on g++ (these files are part of the g++ package) > I could point at the object files directly, but that seems silly - not > only would it give TenDRA a dependancy on gcc, it would give it a > dependancy on a specific version of gcc. > > I was thinking that instead of doing that I should simply require that > the package be built on a system with gcc installed and copy the files > into the package as it is being built. This is a horrible and inelegant > thing to do, but it should work. > > Is this a reasonable thing to do in a package? If nothing else is required from the gcc packages to compile files with the TenDRA compilers, then I propose to copy them.
