On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:52:55PM +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 18:34:44 +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 05:57:55PM +0200, Pascal Stumpf wrote:
> > > Yes, seems like you've found a hidden build dependency. The only thing
> > > execinfo.h does is enable the define _GLIBCXX_HAVE_EXECINFO_H, so I
> > > think it's better to just put it in BUILD_DEPENDS. libmagic, on the
> > > other hand, would require a runtime dependency for the -java subpackage.
> > > I'm inclined to disable it, though if anyone wants it ...
> >
> > What ? so that other stuff may actually depend on it ? this looks rather
> > dangerous and weird.
> >
> > Could you look further ? what's the point of that define ? what further
> > stuff down the road will require it ?
> >
> >
>
> Profiling features of libstdc++. It won't be pulled in unless anyone
> requests it:
>
> $ eg++ -D_GLIBCXX_PROFILE foo.cc
>
> (and running the program collects advice in a file called
> libstdcxx-profile.txt)
>
> Though it's not a big deal, since you can also define
> _GLIBCXX_HAVE_EXECINFO_H on the command line (see
> libstdc++-v3/doc/html/manual/profile_mode.html).
oh well, then I'm okay with it.
