Bug#364845: glibc has recursive build-depends
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:11:00PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> glibc has a build-depends on libc6-dev-amd64 on i386, and libc6-dev-i386 on
> amd64. This makes bootstrapping difficult.
>
> Why can't it just use itself? Doesn't it use gcc in standalone mode, so that
> gcc doesn't need any system-installed development files?
No, and you can't build GCC packages without a glibc either. They're
interdependent.
I believe that you can not run glibc's configure script for the 64-bit
packages without the 64-bit libraries involved.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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