On Friday 01 July 2005 20:53, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 01 July 2005 20:42, Brian D. Harring wrote: > > Err... missing the point, and proving my point. Current portage > > _will_ fail because it's an unstated dependency. Why shouldn't > > portage be provided the deps it needs so it can figure out what is > > needed to get to what the user requested? > > BDEPEND is not going to resolve the case Mike shown. > > GCC bdepends over GCC to compile, you don't have GCC, you can't install > GCC, you can't install anything (a part from binpkgs). > But if you put GCC in profile, no need to depend on it, you'll always have > one also if nothign depends on it and the problem is resolved. > > BTW, as I already stated on irc, GCC is a RDEPEND not a BDEPENED because of > libgcc_s.so and libstdc++.so, so...
No, it's both. You need to have a cross gcc on the compiling machine, and a runtime gcc (gcc-lib parts) on the running machine. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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