Re: missing build-depends

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Philip Blundell writes:
 > >I think you need to add "libgc5-dev" to the gcc build-depends.  
 > >Without that package installed, the package build fails in objc.
 > 
 > gcc-2.95_2.95.4.ds1-0.010506 has:
 > 
 > Build-Depends: dejagnu (>= 1.3-19990614), bzip2, binutils (>= 2.11.90.0.1-1), deb
 > helper (>= 2), gperf (>= 2.7-3), autoconf (>= 2.13), bison, flex, gettext, texinf
 > o, libgc5-dev [!avr !hurd-i386 !m68k], awk
 > 
 > I don't know why libgc5 is inhibited for AVR, Hurd and 68k -- are you using 
 > one of those platforms?

The Boehm garbage collector doesn't work on these architectures.

Btw, gobjc-3.0 still needs the external libgc5-dev, although gcc has a 
copy of gc5 for building libjava.