Bug#275569: marked as done (please make gcc dependent on libc6-dev)
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From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl>
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Subject: please make gcc dependent on libc6-dev
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Package: gcc
Version: 4:3.3.4-3
Severity: wishlist
Hello dear gcc developers!
May I ask you why gcc doesn't depend on libc6-dev?
Why does it "only" recommend it?
More and more newbies still ask "why do I get :
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
cannot create executables"
That's pretty annoying when the same question still repeats on the mailing
lists and newsgroups.
How many applications could be compiled without libc6-dev?
I think that if someone type `apt-get install gcc` he/she should get full
working C compiler. I can't name our gcc full working if it is shipped
without libc6.
regards
fEnIo
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To: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl>, 275569-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#275569: please make gcc dependent on libc6-dev
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Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo writes:
> Package: gcc
> Version: 4:3.3.4-3
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello dear gcc developers!
>
> May I ask you why gcc doesn't depend on libc6-dev?
> Why does it "only" recommend it?
>
> More and more newbies still ask "why do I get :
>
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables"
>
> That's pretty annoying when the same question still repeats on the mailing
> lists and newsgroups.
>
> How many applications could be compiled without libc6-dev?
>
> I think that if someone type `apt-get install gcc` he/she should get full
> working C compiler. I can't name our gcc full working if it is shipped
> without libc6.
you mention it, it's not needed for all tasks. There is a meta package
called build-essential which depends on all the needed packages.
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