On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:27:11PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 06/06/2012 12:18, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Why this ports needs his compiler to RUN?! > > > > > > firefox 13.0,1 > > It's very common for binaries built with gcc to link to libgcc, and/or > libstdc++: > > ldd firefox-bin | grep gcc > libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libstdc++.so.6 (0x802b19000) > libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x8033a5000) > > In an ideal world, we would have separate packages for the runtime libs > and the build tools so that packages could be more portable, but I would > imagine that would be a lot of work. > > Doug
Yes that would be a lot of but it is the way we are doing. the upcoming stagedir will open the door to easy package splitting and then allow easily to split gcc into something like gcc-libs and gcc package or something like that. regards, Bapt
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