Bug#364845: glibc has recursive build-depends

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

tag 364845 + wontfix
thanks

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:26:11PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, the configure script needs to compile some test codes to determine
if support for various things is available or not. Therefore we really
need this recursive build-depends.

I am therefore tagging this bug as wontfix.

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