Re: unsure about Build-Depends
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes:
> just got a message from buildd that I was missing yacc (bison) in my
> Build-Depends. So I looked at the Makefile and also found
> /usr/bin/lex there, making me add bison and flex to the Build-Depends
> line in the control file.
>
> But the it struck me: Why don't I have to specify gcc there? Is it
> just assumed that everyone doing apt-get source and compiling will
> have gcc installed? dpkg-dev does not depend on it, how does Debian
> assure that gcc can even be executed on the system where a package is
> to be built?
Simple. Policy 2.4.2 states:
: It is not necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships on
: a minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile, link and
: put in a Debian package a standard "Hello World!" program written in C
: or C++. The required packages are called build-essential, (...)
..and "build-essential" depends on gcc.
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Tore Anderson
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