Bug#106723: wish: build-dep-src to download/compile build-dep source (a la ports)
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if, after build-dep was bug-reduced, a build-dep-src
option was added to download build-dependancy source packages and
compile them before installing - a 'stable' install could still have new
source lines and latest software (apt-get build-dep-src xchat for
example could download the latest glib/gtk+ source and compile them as
well as xchat itself).
I can see this being a problem, however, if build-deps traced back to
libc6 and you ended up recompiling all software on the box. How the
build-dep system would manage this, I don't know, but it would be nice,
when recompiling to add optimizations, if you could optimize more at
once.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Petra 2.4.7 #2 Sat Jul 21 14:01:17 EDT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.3-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010703 The GNU stdc++ library
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