Hi Luca, > * Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-05 00:01:59 +0100]: > >> the __ONLY__ true dependencies are clisp & a C compiler (not >> necessarily gcc). > > Thanks to `apt-cache showpkg c-compiler` I discovered that the only > other C compiler Debian ships is bcc [2], which I do not think it can > be used with clisp.
why?! >> the rest is FAKE. > Even libc6-dev? I am a little hazy on the package specifics. can one compile a C file without libc6-dev? if yes, libc6-dev should not be a clisp-dev requirement (just a recommendation). if no, libc6-dev should be a requirement of the c-compiler virtual package. >> clisp-dev does NOT require bison/debhelper/groff/gettext/xutils. > > I need to investigate why these were put there, but at least debhelper > sounds strange. For the others, read below. > >> You might think that libffcall1-dev & libsigsegv-dev might be >> required, but they are NOT, they are already pre-linked (statically) >> into lisp.a. > > According to Debian bug #468090 [3], libffcall1 is not statically > pre-linked into lisp.a, but I have never tested for this. even if it is not, http://packages.debian.org/sid/alpha/libffcall1/filelist says that libcallback.so is in the libffcall1 package, not libffcall1-dev. >> readline-dev x11-dev et al are required only for building images on >> top of the full linking set, not on top of the base linking set, so >> they are at most "strongly recommended". > > The problem is double: > > 1) ATM Debian does not ship two clisp linking sets, despite a wishlist > bug is openend for more than 5 years now [4] (with another one being > very similar [5]). I already planned to solve this issue splitting > the Debian clisp package into clisp-base and clisp-full, but I have > not had time yet :-( > > 2) makevars wants to include all of the libraries listed in clisp-dev > Depends:, that is why these libraries are, in the Debian world, > required. why don't you want to ship one package with two linking sets?! -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) http://camera.org http://jihadwatch.org http://truepeace.org http://memri.org http://pmw.org.il http://honestreporting.com http://israelunderattack.slide.com Cannot handle the fatal error due to a fatal error in the fatal error handler. _______________________________________________ pkg-common-lisp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-common-lisp-devel
