Bug#657962: gcc-defaults: Add gcc-plugin-dev?

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Matthias Klose, le Mon 30 Apr 2012 12:41:49 +0200, a écrit :
> On 30.01.2012 16:10, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault, le Mon 30 Jan 2012 11:17:42 +0100, a écrit :
> >> I have a package which would like to build a gcc plugin. I should
> >> however not make it build-depend on a particular gcc-4.[567]-plugin-dev
> >> package as the default version changes over time. Could gcc-defaults
> >> also provide a gcc-plugin-dev package?
> > 
> > Actually, thinking a bit more about it, I guess I actually have
> > to build my plugin several times, once for each supported gcc
> > version. So we'd need something similar to python, i.e. something
> > like gcc-all-plugin-dev, and a way to iterate over all supported gcc
> > versions.
> 
> Is this really needed? many plugins need modifications for different GCC
> versions, and it should be easy to add such a "loop" or make magic to build for
> different versions. There are not (yet) that many plugins for GCC.

My comments were before our discussion about a dpkg trigger to rebuild
the plugins automatically.  I agree that we can't really blindly hope
that plugins can compile with newer versions.

Samuel