At 11:34 +0200 1999-10-27, Roman Hodek wrote:
c) can setup a buildroot and start building everything that is needed to build a packageOuch... Do you want to build glibc before building any package? And build all src-deps of glibc transitively (this includes gcc, bzip2, tetex-bin, ...) ??
He means have that as an ability, but I don't see that as relevant to what we *need* for source depends to be useful.
As an aside, I don't think the present dpkg-buildpackage is a suitable platform for dependency checking, being that it's only a shell script.
I've eliminated the tetex-bin dependency, BTW. bzip2 hadn't occurred to me as a dependency, but I guess it is. What else? patch? We need to discuss what's build-essential anyway. Here's a start:
libc-dev gcc g++ libstdc++-dev patch make dpkg-dev binutils bison -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>