Re: gcc and binutils

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Bernd Eckenfels writes ("gcc and binutils"):
> ist it possile that on a fresh new install gcc is installed before binutils
> is installed, and therefore fail to configure? If I run configure afterwards
> everything is fine. Will dpkg install a package first if it sees that other
> ones depend on it?

Err, I don't quite understand the question.  The answer to your first
sentence is `no, it shouldn't be possible'.

See the draft programmers' manual for details of exactly how things
happen.

Ian.