Re: Source Requirements
Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org> writes:
> * Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox@debian.org) [140429 23:34]:
>> of course not, do a bootstrap each time, or provide a separate
>> bootstrap package in the archive, such that other people can reproduce
>> the boostrap process. circular build-dependency on one-self is always
>> bad.
> You mean like e.g. gcc should be able to bootstrap without gcc? (I
> would consider it ok for at least all compilers in build-essential.)
The "standard" way to do this is to hand-inject the first package (usually
by cross-building it) and then build-depend on yourself, meaning that you
use the existing compiler in the archive to build the next version for the
archive. See, for example, gnat-4.6. Shipping a pre-compiled binary
doesn't sound like the best solution.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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