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Re: problem with build dependencies



Ralf Treinen <treinen@club-internet.fr> writes:

> I have the following build-depencies:
> 
> Build-Depends: debhelper, autoconf, guile1.4, libguile-dev, g++ (>= 2.95.2), g++ (<< 3.0), xlibs-dev 
> 
> This is because my package does not compile on gcc 3.0.

That's the wrong solution; you need to fix your package to compile
with gcc-3.0.  If you add those build-depends, you'll just get a bug
report on those architectures who have no choice but to use gcc >>
2.95.

> My installed version of g++ is 2.95-4:
> % dpkg -l g++

> ii  g++            2.95.4-7       The GNU C++ compiler.

dpkg sucks; try apt-cache show g++ and check out the epoch in the
version field...

-- 
James



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